154. Of the Natural Swarming of Bees. 
immediate poffeflion, and fall to work with ala- 
crity. Sometimes, after continuing two or three 
hours in it, and beginning to work, they will 
rife and fettle on fome other place, or go.back 
to their mother hive again; and fometimes they 
will fly off altogether, in fearch perhaps of a 
‘habitation previoufly fixed on. They muft 
therefore be carefully watched till the heat of 
the day be over, after which, it may be pre- 
fumed, they will not rife again. 7 
As foon as the young colony are fairly lodged _ 
in their new habitation, let the hive be placed — 
on a ftool, and carried with all due caution to— 
the place where it is intended to fland{; for 
the fooner the hive is ftationed, the fooner the 
bees will be acquainted with its fituation, A 
few ftragglers, indeed, may fly about the place i 
where the fheet was firft laid down; but they — 
will foon either find out the fwarm, or return — 
to their mother hive, either of which will be no — 
lofs. When the hive is placed in its proper 
{tation — 
{ At all feafons, as foon as a {warm is fairly fettled, both the 
fize of the {warm and the feafon of the year fhould be taken into 
confideration. If the {warm be pretty numerous, if the mother 
hive can bear the want of it, and if the feafon be not too far ad- 
vanced, let it be put into a hive by itfelf. But directions will 
afterwards be given, how to act if any of the contrary circum. . 
flances occur. 
