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tions. If a third swarm is thrown, it usually issues in aJbout 

 one to three days after the second. 



For taking swarms down from tall trees, a swarm catcher 

 (see Fig. 13) is a very convenient thing. This may be attached 

 to a long pole. The pole may be in sections but needs to be 

 strong and securely put together. 



Fig. 13. — ^A swarm 

 catcher. With this a 

 swarm may be tafeeu 

 down from a tall tree 



Races of Bees 



There are several races of bees in the United States all of 

 which, without doubt, were at some time imported from Euro- 

 pean countries. The common Black or German bee was the 

 one first known in America and was impwrted into Florida 

 about the year 1763. by the Spaniards. There may have been 

 and proba:bly were later importations. Bees evidently found 

 conditions more favorable to colonization than those who im- 

 ported them, for they appeared in Kentucky in 1780, in New 

 York in 1793, and west of the Mississippi in 1797, and can now 

 be found in every state in the union. They were familiarly 

 known to the Indians as " The White Man's Fly," " The Sting- 

 ing Fly," and " The Honey JMaking Fly." Some authoratives 

 claim they were introduced into New England (probably from' 

 England) as early as 1638. Harbison took one hundred and 

 sixty colonies (with a loss of only six) from Pennsyhania to 

 California by the way of Panama in i8c;7. The same year the 



