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butter muslin or similar material, so as to confine the bees 
while giving them plenty of air; it may then be left in a cool 
shady place until required for hiving (76), placing it on its 
side, or mouth downwards but tilted, so as to permit of ample 
ventilation. If the swarm is not confined, the bees might 
abscond, and either move to a distant spot selected by the 
scouts, or possibly return to the hive. The flying bees will not 
be lost, as they will return to the parent hive. Assuming that 
it 1s not intended to dispose of the swarm, a hive should at once 
be prepared for hiving it (95). 
To identify the hive from which a swarm has issued, place 
a teaspoonful of flour in a large cup, scoop 
94. Identifying into it from the swarm about a wineglassful 
Hive from which of bees, shake them up with the flour, 
Swarm issued. throw them up in the air at about ten yards 
from the hives, and then watch the hive 
entrances to ascertain which hive the floured bees will enter. 
The parent stock and swarm should be treated as follows :— 
Remove the hive from which the swarm 
issued to a temporary position about a yard 
from its original stand; then place an 
empty hive on the stand thus vacated, and 
prepare this hive as for receiving a swarm ('75), except that only 
one frame of foundation is required. Then open the parent hive, 
and take from it the two frames which contain most capped 
brood, brush the bees off them, and place them in the new hive ; 
then transfer the front frame, probably containing pollen, from 
the parent hive to the front of the new hive, and if the parent 
stock is a strong one of ten or eleven frames, remove also the 
back frame from the parent hive to the back of the new hive ; 
any queen cells on these frames should be removed ; then arrange 
these frames in the new hive in the following order :— 
(1.) Front or pollen frame. 
(2.) Capped brood frame. 
(3.) Foundation frame. 
(4.) Capped brood frame. 
(5.) Frame of honey (if parent hive is strong.) 
The dummy should now be inserted, and all the frames 
should be pushed forward into their correct positions ('75). 
Then place an extension board sixteen and one-half inches long 
by four inches wide by half-an-inch thick, behind the dummy, 
resting it on the sides of the body-box ; this board is thus placed 
to prevent the bees passing down behind the dummy from a 
crate of sections ; the top of this board should be flush with the 
top of the dummy. Next place a new crate of sections on the 
hive (110), and over it place any crates that may have been on 
the parent stock, without removing the bees from them. Then 
cover and roof. Next place the parent stock on a new stand 
at some distance from its old stand, after which hive the swarm 
('76) in the new hive. This is the best procedure to adopt with 
95, Treatment of 
Parent Stock and 
Swarm. 
