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clipped, she cannot fly, and can easily be found. Put her 
in a queen cage, a supply of which should always be at 
hand. As soon as the bees have all issued, remove the 
old hive from the stand and.put a new one in its place, 
covering it with the same roof, to identify the spot, and 
place the caged queen at the entrance. Carry the old 
hive to the stand occupied by the nucleus, and put it in 
its place. Open the nucleus, find and cage the queen, 
and place her in the old hive between two combs. Next 
shake all the bees from the nucleus in front of this hive, 
and take these combs to the old stand, and if the work 
has been done so quickly that the swarm has not yet com- 
menced to return, place these combs at the center, or, 
better, alternate them with empty combs. As the swarm 
returns, release the queen, and permit her to enter with 
the rest. The queen in the other hive may be liberated 
the next day. Care must be observed that the bees do 
not enter adjacent hives, which will frequently happen. 
Several light sheets should always be at hand to spread 
over such hives as they may attempt to enter. 
When bees leave the hive in swarming, they seem to 
relinquish all claims to the old location. I have known 
them to enter several adjoining hives. ‘They are usually 
readily accepted at such times, as they are filled with 
honey. The practice of clipping the queen’s wings, and 
hiving swarms thus, is advoeated by some, for the assign- 
ed reason that if several swarms issue at the same time, 
they would separate and return to their respective hives, 
thus saving much trouble. With this, my experience 
does not coincide, particularly if the bees attempt to 
alight, which two or more swarms together are much 
more likely todo. Such are quite apt to all return to one 
hive, and usually to one of those from which they issued, 
yet these too, will often scatter, and enter different hives. 
This I offer as an objection to this plan. As it is essen- 
tially the same in result as the first method suggested in 
