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BEE-CULTURE. 
the bees, and they run up into it. When high up on a branch, 
a large basket could be fastened to a pole, and reaching up, 
jar the bees into it; let the basket dowa gently, and cover 
the basket over with a cloth until the bees have becomo 
quiet, they can then be hived. Nothing is needed in the 
hive to induce the bees to stay, except to be cool, clean and 
rather rough where the bees have to fasten their combs. To 
rub the hive inside with peach tree leaves, with hickory 
leaves, or salt water, or sugar water is all unnecessary. I use 
none of these and could hardly have better luck than I have. 
Somo persons lose one-fourth of their bees by their going to 
the woods either before or after they were hived. I have not 
had one hive in one hundred to leave me when I have been 
at home to attend to them. Although I consider this rather 
remarkable, yet am strongly inclined to think that the proper 
management of swarms has something to do with it. 
DO BEES HAVE THEIR HOME IN TIIE WOODS SELECTED BEFORE LEAVING 
TUI! HIVE ? 
This is an unsettled question, yet it seems most probable 
that some of them do, at least when they come out of the liivo 
and go immediately in a straight line to the tree. 
BEE TREES. 
In swarming time bees are often found clearing the hollow 
of a tree, and soon after a swarm has been known to enter it. 
When bees arc hunting a home they can be seen hovering 
about a hole in a tree, and flying up and down and around it 
apparently in search of something; whilst if a colony already 
lodged in a tree, the bees will be flying to and from it more 
in a straight line. Observance of this rule would prevent 
many a large tree from being unnecessarily cut for bees in 
swarming time. 
TO CUT A BEE TREE. 
Cut a bee treo as soon as a swarm has been known to enter, 
before the bees commence building combs, otherwise defer 
it until the bees are just commencing to make honey the next 
spring. The combs will then bo stronger and being well 
emptied of honey, will be less likely to break and drown the 
