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THE IIIVE AND HONKT-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 
the queen, the bees should be shaken 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 he directed to the 
entrance, and care he 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 
up without danger, as she never stings, unless engaged in 
combat with another queen. 
It is interesting to witness 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 who 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, with 
an air of conscious importance, marches straight forward, 
and looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, glides 
into the hive, with 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¬ 
most as coolly as though giving directions to measure so 
many bushels of wheat; experience will soon convince 
them, that the ease with which they may be managed is 
not at all exaggerated. 
The old-fashioned way of hiving swarms, by mounting 
trees, and cutting off valuable limbs, should be entirely 
