WHEN TO EXPECT SWARMS. 
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another is yet unhived, throi®a sheet over the first and tie 
it in, that the second cannot get at it. No difference how 
many come out, in such a case they will all light together. If 
whilst you are hiving a swarm there is a likelihood that an- 
other will issue before you tire done, go to all your hives and 
examine them hastily. If there is the agitation in the hive 
that is preparatory to swarming, sprinkle those ouSKde with 
water, and they will go in and retard swarming for a half 
hour or more. 
DIVIDING SWARMS THAT HAVE LIT TOGTEIIER. 
If two or more largo swarms go together, they should 
always be divided. i'o do this you must have some 
knowledge and a good deal of patience Put an equal num- 
ber of the bees into two hives, watching as they enter for a 
queen. If you find her, place her under a tumbler or in a 
wire cage.* If you do not see her you may have a queen in 
each hive ; if not, the one that is queenless will soon mani- 
fest it by running rapidly about the entrance, showing much 
uneasiness. Set this hive now on a sheet and tie it so that 
the bees will not get out, and lay it on its side to keep them 
from smothering, while you shake the bees out of the other 
hive and run them in again until you find a queen. Put her 
in your queenless hive, and you are done. If you find a queen 
when first hiving them, set the hives on their stands and 
when one of them begins to show signs of queenlessness, give 
it the caged queen. When hiving, it is generally convenient 
to use a table-cloth or newspaper laid on the table or the 
ground. Set the hive on this, raising one side of it a little 
to let the bees enter. If it is desired to look for the queen, 
shake the bees down, one, two, or three feet from the hivd, so 
as to afford a better opportunity to look for her as they pass 
in. Her slightly yellowish color, her long legs and body, her 
more majestic movements among her people, are likely to at- 
tract the eye. Do not be expecting to find her among the 
thick clusters of bees ; she is no more likely to be there than 
any other bee, j" nor do the bees pay any regard to her in these 
*To make a cage, take a piece of wire cloth three inches square, twelve to 
- sixteen meshes to the inch. Bend this around a flat stick so as to make a 
flat tube, and put a plug of paper in each eud. 
flf a queen gets into a swarm to which she does not belong (as is the case 
occasionally with queens of two swarms that have gone together), the bees 
will confine her, by clustering in a ball the size of a hen’s egg, or move so 
