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THE APIARY. 
are not the most hungry, but fly cautiously and angrily about 
before alighting. If the bees are got properly to work, one or 
more swarms may often be found, which, if transferred into 
hives will be a valuable acquisition, but are too often thought- 
lcssly destroyed for their stores alone. 
HOW TO TRAP WILD BEES OR ROBBERS. 
TVe give this method more especially for pioneers in a new 
country, for although a part of a swarm or swarms of fugitive 
or wild bees may be easily trapped without finding the tree, by 
getting them to work upon a bait, yet if other bees are at work 
within reach there is no ivay to prevent catching them also, even 
though they belong to your own or your neighbors' agnary. After 
getting into the supposed vicinity of wild bees, and a mile or 
more from any apiary, get the bees at work upon a bait by 
either of the methods given. Remove the cap and frames from 
the American Hive and place in it the bait containing plenty of 
honey, with the bees upon it. Close the entrance, leaving open 
the two fly-holes above it. Set another hive upon the top of 
this one, having first bored a hole in its bottom for the bees to 
pass up through. This hole may be covered with a slide to be 
worked through a hole in the side of the hive. The hive should 
also have wire-cloth tacked over its top and the cap left off, as 
in moving bees. After a strong line of bees have got at work, 
going and returning, close one of the fly-holes of the lower hive 
and insert in the other a tin tube about six inches long. The 
outer end of the tube should not project beyond the front board,, 
