CHAPTER XIII. 
“> ARTIFICIAL CLUSTERING SHRUBS OR BUSHES. 
Armiricray clustering shrubs may be found very beneficial by any 
one who will take the trouble to prepare them, either when small 
shrubbery and trees are plenty, or in an apiary destitute of them: 
small pine or cedar shrubs six or 8 feet in height, or boughs of these 
may be tied to the tops of poles of about the same length; set these up 
around the apiary at two or three rods apart, or what is still better, 
take the seed-ends of mullen-stalks about a dozen in number, and tie 
these to the tops of poles as before stated; the poles should be set in 
the ground so as to be easily taken up after the bees have settled on 
them ; by managing in this manner, th@ hive may be set in the apiary, 
before hiving, and the bees may be carried on the pole and laid by the 
side of the hive, when they will enter it; this saves the trouble of 
moving the hive after hiving, and consequently no bees will be lost. 
The mullen tops should be attached to the poles so as to lie nearly 
horizontally. What there is in the mullen stalks so attracting to the 
bees I know not, unless it is their rough, uneven surface, which af- 
fords the bees security against falling ; old dry weather-beaten stalks are 
as good as any. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
HIVER. 
Ween an apiary is situated near large trees, a hiver will be found 
very convenient in many instances, when swarms settle on trees so 
high as to be out of reach, when standing on a chair or stool. It may 
be made in either of the following forms, and at trifling expense. Ist. 
Take two pieces of thin light boards eighteen or twenty inches long, 
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