10© HIVING. 



approve, and fettle feparately. Let tfrem 

 alone till they are feverally fettled, hive 

 each parcel feparate, afterwards flrike them 

 out on a board one after the other, and take 

 the queens from each, all but the larger! 

 duller, to which put all the reft. Or other- 

 wife, at the clofe of the evening, fume them 

 all together y when the firft princefs that re- 

 covers will be acknowledged queen, and the 

 reft expelled or flain by the morning. 



Stray swarms are often perceived fly- 

 ing in the air, and may be allured to fettle 

 (efpecially if tired with flight) by making 

 fome kind of tinkling with a knife upon a 

 fork, fhovel, or the like ; and when fettled, 

 may be brufhed into a hat, handkerchief, or 

 part of the garment, which being gathered 

 up by the corners, may fafely be carried 

 home, and laid on the ground, or table ; 

 laying a ftick acrofs ; and placing a hive 

 over them, they will affemble therein. 



When a [warm fettles in several clus- 

 ters, hive only the largeft clu/ler, and re- 

 move it, a fmall diftance at a time, near to 

 the fmaller clufters, which are fuccemvely 

 to be fhook off the places of cluftering by a 

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