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singular desertion, that I succeeded in hiving both 

 swarms ; and in a few days they rushed out again, and 

 I was unable to stop them. Here is a cut representing 

 a swarm taking a flight to the forest, high above the 

 trees. 



When bees are determined to seek a home for them- 

 selves, they revolve in a mass, gradually getting higher 

 and higher, until the coast is clear, and then their flight 

 is rapid ; yet sometimes they may be followed for half a 

 mile. The best remedy for bringing them down is, to 

 throw fine sand or water among them. When one of 

 the swarms issued, before spoken of, I seized a pail of 

 water and a dipper, and I made the water fly among 

 them like a real shower. Before I had used the first 

 pail of water, they had got some twenty rods from the 

 apiary. In the mean time I sent for more water, and I 

 at last succeeded in bringing them to cluster on the 

 branch of a cherry tree, about twenty feet from the 



