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aroused and frightened, both by jarring the hive 
and giving heavy doses of smoke, and then leaning 
a board against, or hanging a red cloth over, and 
a few inches in front of, their flight-hole, so as to 
arrest their attention, and cause them to mark their 
location when taking wing. 
7. Driven bees, or any deprived of their combs, 
if left on their proper stand without a queen, will 
disperse amongst neighbouring hives, although their 
stay may be lengthened by disturbance, and adding 
more bees occasionally. Exception : If a piece of 
comb containing unsealed brood be given, the bees 
will not desert their hive. 
8. Close partially, and according to circumstances, 
the mouths of stock hives that have been forced 
{{.e.f swarmed) ; they are relatively weak, and are 
likely to suffer from chill ; they are also queenless, 
and are liable to be attacked by robbers. 
g. If, from an oversight, a stock is left too bare 
of bees, it should be fed with sweetened water, and 
may, with the precautions mentioned in No. 6, be 
completely confined to its hive. In extreme cases, 
it should be placed in a warm room, but even then 
many of the young larvae will die from neglect. 
10. Swarm from your best stocks (?>., those giving 
what you most desire) : this is a golden rule, and too 
often forgotten. Remember, you thus get a good 
queen for the swarm, and her qualities will be con- 
tinued in her successor in the stock. Raising queens 
from weaklings that seem incapable of anything better, 
is reversing Nature’s law that the Attest alone shall 
survive, by perpetuating the progeny of an effete 
