Of the Artificial Swarming of Bees. 1s 
- But, if they do not unite in a friendly man- 
ner, there is not a moment to be loft. Thé 
hive muit be inftantly turned up, and the bees 
driven into four or five different hives. Every 
clufter of them muft be fearched for the 
Queen, who, when caught, muft be feparat- 
ed from all the other bees, whether friends or 
., foes, as, at fuch a time, it is impofhible to dif= 
tinguifh the one from the other. ‘And, while 
u fhe is kept clofe prifoner, the bees may be 
frightened from farther fighting; and even 
gradually pacified, by rapping on the hives, 
and thus driven out of one hive into another. 
If this attempt does not fucceed to bring the 
yeestO a good underftanding with each other, 
cold water ‘may be fprinkled on them in the 
hives to cool their courage; or they may be 
qos; (all due care being taken, however, not 
wy Y ai coe to 
of each to be Arft at her with his dagger. It is, indeed, beyond 
a doubt, that Queens are often furrounded in this manner by 
their enemies, who frequently kill them very quickly. | But I 
am of opinion, that they are often likewile encompailed bys their 
friends in a fimilar manner, whofe loyal zeal for their fovertign 
other Icads them thus to form an impregnable phalanx Found ' 
her with their bodies, to protec her perfon from the. one of hells goss 
moft inveterate foess 
‘ ken into a room, as directed, page 142, and nas 
| when, by their being thus tofled and tumbled 
