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TO ARREST FUGITIVE SWARMS. 
Swarms of bees do not always cluster after issuing. 
If the bee-keeper perceives that, instead of clustering, 
they rise higher into the air and begin to draw off, he 
should at once use some means to arrest the movement. 
The ringing of bells, firing of guns, rattling of pans, 
and other “scare-out-of-home” noises, will not arrest 
them. How often have we seen swarm after swarm go 
off amidst the loudest of all imaginable noises, while 
just as frequently they cluster without even the presence 
of the bee-keeper. To throw gravel or dirt among 
them will often so disturb their movement as to cause 
them to alight. Another method for disorganizing or 
confusing them, “ is to flash the sun’s rays among them 
with a looking-glass.” The most effectual means for 
arresting their movements, is to throw water over them 
in such a manner as to fall upon them like rain. The 
firing of a gun directly into the cluster, will occasion- 
ally disorganize them, and cause them to alight, but by 
it there is danger of killing the queen. 
Bees may be induced to cluster on objects easy and 
convenient for hiving. It is in harmony with their in- 
stinct to cluster where other bees have chosen to alight, 
and by constructing objects resembling a cluster of 
bees, they will, quite frequently, be induced to alight 
thereon. Dry mullen stalks, tied to the end of a pole, 
and planted in the immediate vicinity of the apiary, 
