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they fly out the next day will oome back to their first stand, 
and be lost instead of returning to their old home. Shade 
the hive well, at least for a few days. If water is thrown on 
the hive occasionally, the evaporation irom the hive will cool 
it and make it agreeable. 
A gentleman who had agreed to furnish his first swaim to 
his neighbor had another to come out at the same time and 
settle with it, he disliked to sell them both for the price of 
one, so he ran them both into a large hive and left them sit- 
ting in the sun. whilst he came eight miles for me to divide 
them. When he returned, the bees had become overheated 
and had left for — he knew not where. If a swarm begins to 
return to the hive without clustering, the old hive might be 
set away or closed, and a new one set on its stand for them 
to enter. Look on the ground for the queen (which has 
most likely dropped down) and put her with them. When 
the bees commence clustering in some undesirable place, I 
take a handful of leafy branches and hold them in my hand 
immediately over the cluster. I have sometimes used a 
clump of dead mullen tops tied together to resemble a swarm 
of bees, to have the swarm settle on it. As they are all the time 
inclined to work upwards in clustering, take a handtul or two 
gently from the cluster and place them on the swarming bush 
in your baud to form a nucleus to which the rest will be in- 
clined to unite. Then stir the bees below with a quill or 
branch, or what is less likely to anger them, a little smoke 
held immediately under them will make them move ; when 
on the bush they can be carried to the hive. If a few are 
inclined to cluster on the brauch after the main portion of 
the swarm has been removed, they could be collected in this 
way and taken to the hive; or hold the branch to one side, or 
shake it uutil the bees are attracted by the sound in the hive 
and enter it. To place a smoking rag on the place where 
bees persist in clustering, or rub the parts with oatnip, worm- 
wood, or other bitter herbs, will make them less inclined to 
light there. They will sometimes persist in clustering where 
the queen has teen. A lady, at a fair where I was playing 
with a colony of bees, was standing near, my queen got out 
of her cage and lit on her shoulder and the bees commenced 
clustering with her, and it was with difficulty that she could 
prevent them from lighting there, even after the queen had been 
removed. A hive or box is sometimes set immediately over 
