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will Have a tendency to keep them from crowding 
around the bee-catcher while the bees are entering the 
hive. In a few hours you will have most of them in 
your possession. 
There will be a few that will stay in the tree with 
the queen, and cannot be induced to leave ; consequently 
provision must now be made for this deficiency. The 
hive must now be moved to a dark cellar, and left there 
five or six days, when they will be broken down in 
spirit, and willing to receive any favors you see fit to 
grant them. They may now be brought from the 
cellar, and placed upon a stand away from other bees, 
and a queen given them, (see Directions for Introducing 
Queens,) or a piece of comb containing some worker 
eggs, or larvae under three days old, and they will rear 
them a queen in about sixteen days. This must he in 
a season when there is a probability of there being 
drones tor the young queens to pair with, or it will be 
useless for them to rear one. All apiculturists should, 
during the season of drones, rear some extra queens 
and cage them, (see Queen Cages,) thus making provi- 
sion against emergencies of this kind. For an inexpe- 
rienced person, perhaps it would be better to first cut 
the tree and take out the honey, and secure the bees at 
the same time in a hive, for future operations, first 
fitting some of the honey into the frames. 
HIVES, BEST LUMBER FOR. 
Good merchantable pine lumber is best ; hemlock 
next ; black walnut, chestnut, oak, whitewood, poplar, 
basswood, &c. ; the two last are probably the poorest 
of any, yet bee-hives may be made of almost any kind 
of lumber. Basswood and poplar absorb and retain 
