hiving, lit 



have fettled below the paflage hole, make 

 the large hole below the clufter, as near as 

 can be judged, by ftriking where the buz 

 may direct. 



If thefe methods prove unfuccefsful, re- 

 courfe muft be had to fmoking rags, damp 

 ilraw, or cow dung, put into the hole, if it 

 be made large enough ; and at the fame 

 inftant hammering under their lodgement, 

 or teafing them by thrufting twigs up till 

 they fly out. Perhaps (for I have had no 

 opportunity of trying) if an opening could 

 be made large enough to receive a pot of 

 fuming puffs under them, for about twenty 

 minutes ; by confining the fmoke, pro- 

 bably the bees might be fo ftupefted as to fall 

 to the bottom, and might carefully be taken 

 out, by a ladle, or fpoon, and put into a 

 hive, and immediately carried away, and 

 placed in a dark room or out-houfe till the 

 morning. The chafms of the tree fhould 

 be all flopped to prevent the bees from re- 

 turning to their former lodge, The longer 

 bees have fettled in any place, the lefs dif- 

 pofed they will be to quit it ; efpecially if 

 they have made combs, and have brood 



therein, 



