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Some good beo managers have recommended sot- 
t'ing down bushes like bean poles with the foilago on 
the top, around about the apiary, for bees to alight 
on, which answers an excellent purpose where there 
aro no trees at hand. But thcro is another method 
which I havo known to succeed in catching swarms 
even where fruit trees uro plenty in tho immediate 
vicinity of the apiary, it is this : Tako a quantity of 
dry rnullen heads, and confine both ends of them a- 
round tho body, or limb of a bush in such a rnanno r 
as to look liko a swarm of bees at a little distance ; 
where several of these aro set down, scattered about 
at shoit distances ftom the apiary, the bees will sottlo 
on some ono of them that is most shaded.— It should 
bo remembered in all cases not to let the sun shine on 
a beo bivo so long as to heat the board. 
