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TUE HIVE AND DONEY-BEE. 
queen for each hive, the queenless one will go hack to the 
old stock. 
• If, while hiving a swarm, the Apiarian wishes to secure 
S the queen, the bees should be sliaken from the hiving-bas- 
/ ket, a foot or more from the hive, when a quick eye will 
/ generally see her as she passes over the sheet. If the 
bees are reluctant to go in, a few must be directed to the 
entrance, and care be taken to brush them back, when 
they press forward in such dense masses that the queen is 
likely to enter unobserved. An experienced eye readily 
detects her peculiar color and form. She may be taken 
S up without danger, as she never stings, unless engaged in 
I combat w'ith another queen. 
It is interesting to Avitness how speedily a queen passes 
into the hive, as soon as she recognizes the joyful note 
announcing that her colony has found a home. She 
quickly follows in the direction of the moving mass, and 
her long legs enable her easily to outstrip, in the race for 
possession, all Avho attempt to follow her. Other bees 
linger around the entrance, or fly into the air, or collect 
in listless knots on the sheet; but a fertile mother, Avith 
an air of conscious importance, marches straight forward, 
and looking neither to the right h.and nor to the left, glides 
into the hive, Avith the same dispatchful haste that charac¬ 
terizes a bee returning fully laden from the nectar-bearing 
fields. 
Persons unaccustomed to bees, may think that I speak 
; about “ scooping them up,” and “ shaking them out,” al- 
I most as coolly as though giving directions to me.asure so 
-1 many bushels of Avheat; experience Avill soon convince 
them, that the ease Avith Avhich they may be managed is 
I not at all exaggerated. 
The old-fashioned Avay of hiving swarms, by mounting 
trees, .and cutting off valuable limbs, should be ontirelv 
