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blown upon with a bellows, it exasperates them. A 
great light dazzles them ; hence the reason why they 
can be better managed in clear bright weather, than 
in cloudy weather. In swarming your Bees, let your 
dress be of some light colour, and guard the hair and 
the eyes particularly, for these are the objects they 
aim at in their wrath.' If the swarm are restless after 
they are hived, you may suspect the queen is lost, 
and the Bees will soon return to the mother hive. If 
you examine the parent hive, and obtain a supernu- 
merary queen, and introduce her into your new hive, 
she will be well received, and all will be tranquil, 
and the swarm will hum with joy. Whenever a 
swarm divides itself into several clusters, it is the ef- 
fect of several queens in the hive, they should be im- 
mediately joined, and the Bees will destroy all the 
supernumerary queens, and the one joint stock will 
greatly exceed in value any number of small ones. 
If such a divided swarm should be one of your first 
swarms, and you should wish to multiply your Bees 
by keeping them separate, spread a sheet upon the 
f round, invert your hive in which your Bees have 
cen hived, and by a smart knock upon it, the Bees 
will all fall upon the sheet, they will not fly away, but 
will separate themselves into as many groups as 
there are queens, and each group will cluster round 
their queen ; you may then hjve them separately, and 
place tjltm at a distance from each other; the con- 
fusion' which this process may occasion, will subside 
in one night, and all become tranquil again. If your 
swarm is hived in the morning, which is the usual 
time, the hive must not be moved until evening, to 
give opportunity to the stragglers to come in. The 
place of swarming, will be the resort of the Bees for 
several days. If you neglect to remove your swarm 
at evening, let it remain five or six weeks, that the 
combs, \vhich are very tender at first, may acquire 
strength, so as to bear moving without injury. 
Whenever your swarms fly at a distance from your 
