MANAGING BEES. 
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ly in taking possession of their new habitation, 
disturb them by brushing them with a goose- 
quill or some other instrument not harsh, and 
they will soon enter. In case it is found ne- 
cessary to invert the hive to receive the bees, 
(which is frequent from their manner of alight- 
ing,) then first secure the drawers down to the 
floor, by inserting a handkerchief or something 
above them : now invert the hive and shako 
or brush the bees into it : now turn it gently 
right end up on the table, or other place, ob- 
serving the rule aforesaid. 
REMARKS. 
Bees swarm from 9 o’clock in the morning 
to 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a fair day, dit- 
ing in the season according to the climate. In 
Vermont, they generally swarm from the mid- 
dle of May to the 15th of July : in late seasons 
some later. I have known them to swarm as 
early as 7 in the morning, and as late as 4 in 
the afternoon. I have also known them to come 
forth when it rained so hard as nearly to defeat 
them by b da ting down many to the ground 
which were probably lost from their colony ; 
and I once had a swarm come forth on the lGth 
day of August. 
Two reasons, and two only can be assign- 
