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accustomed to perform it, when the swarm does not 

 cluster too high. 



A blanket is necessary to spread over the table to 

 ease the fall of the bees upon it. When they cluster so 

 high as to require a fall of five or six feet, I put the 

 blanket on doubled, or throw a bag over the table, and 

 then put the blanket or table cover over it. 



Some apiarians first brush or shake the bees off the 

 branch into the hive, which is held under them bottom 

 upwards, and then set it down upon a table with one or 

 more of its sides raised on blocks to admit such bees as 

 are out. This is a good way where the bees do not 

 cluster conveniently for shaking or brushing off before 

 the hive. There is no difficulty in making the bees 

 enter when made to fall on ^ table before it. They will 

 run towards a hive when several feet from it, on their 

 seeing an opening for them. 



HIVER. 



When bees cluster upon the branches of trees, too 

 high to admit of being hived in the foregoing way, a 

 temporary hiver may be used to advantage. It is made 

 by taking three light, thin boards about ten inches wide, 

 and 18 inches long, and nailing them together in the 

 form of a triangle, with both ends left open, and sundry 

 auger holes bored through the sides, near the centre. 

 An iron strip is then secured to it, with arms extending 

 along two of its sides, and a short shank projecting, 

 which is made fast to a pole. This hiver may be raised 

 by the means of the pole to any usual height that bees 



