MANAGING BEES. 
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r it able, and are disposed to sting when they 
swarm, is, the air is forbidding to them, by 
being cold, windy, damp, extremely hot, or 
otherwise, so as to impede them in their de- 
termined emigration. In all such cases, the 
apiarian should be furnished with a veil, made 
of millinet, or some light covering which may 
be thrown over his hat, and let down so low 
as to cover his face and bosom, and fixed in 
such a manner as to prevent their stinging. — 
He should also put on a pair of thick woolen 
gloves or stockings over his hands, thus man- 
aging them without the least danger. 
Experience and observation have taught 
that the Queen leaves the old stock first, anti 
her colony rapidly follow. They fly about a 
few minutes, apparently in the greatest confu- 
sion, until the swarm is principally out of the 
hive. They then alight, generally on the limb 
of some tree, shrub or bush, or some other 
place convenient for them to cluster in abunch 
not far from the old stock, and make- their ar- 
rangements for a journey to a new habitation. 
Perhaps not one swarm in a thousand know 
where they are going, until after they have 
