MANAGING BEES. 
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No confusion or noise which is uncommon to 
the bees should ever be made during their 
swarming or hiving. The only effect of noise, 
ringing of bells, &e., that I could ever discov- 
er, was, to render them the more hostile and 
unmanageable. 
A clean hiveis all that is needed for aswarm 
of bees, with careful and humane treatment. 
A cluster of bees should never be shook, or 
jarred any more than merely to disengage 
them from the limb or place where they are 
collected, nor should they fall any great dis- 
tance, because their sacks are lull when they 
swarm, which render them both clumsy and 
harmless, and harsh treatment makes them 
irritable and unmanageable. 
When bees go from the old stock direct to 
the woods, without alighting, it is when they 
lie out of the hive before swarming. It is be- 
lieved that they, being clustered in a body on 
the outside of the hive, assume the organiza- 
tion of a regular rm, and their embassy is 
sent forth to sear i out a new residence belore 
the swarm leaves the old stock. This diffi- 
culty is obviated in the Vermont Hive. In 
