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To find the place where the bees enter the tree, walk 
slowly backward and forward in its shadow, so as to 
bring every point of its trunk and large limbs in range 
between the eye and the sun • look just below the sun 
where the bees are easily seen,— being distinctly reveal- 
ed by the reflection of the sun’s rays upon them. If 
the bees are to be hunted early in the spring or late in 
the autumn, when they are not at work on the flowers, 
they must be attracted to the bait by other methods! 
Choose the middle of a warm day, and being provided 
with some old comb and a few matches, in addition to 
the equipment before described, proceed to some open 
place near the supposed locality of the wild bees, start 
a fire and burn a piece of old dry comb or beeswax, 
upon which a little oil of anise has been dropped. In 
about half an hour, the bees will come along the line of 
smoke, near which line the bait should be placed ; as 
soon as you perceive their presence, cover the burning 
comb with leaves or dirt, and as soon as the course 
taken by the bees from the bait is ascertained, proceed 
as directed in the first case. 
After a tree is found mark it with your initials, and 
it safe, let it remain until drones appear in May ; then, 
if the queen should be killed in falling the tree, there 
will be eggs in the combs from which to rear another 
queen, and drones for her fertilization. 
