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Title: The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Benton, Frank, 1852-1919 Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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treeor shrub. It very rarely happens that a swarm fails to cluster before leaving,but it may do so if it has swarmed before and returned to the hivebecause the queen failed to accompany it. Spraying water on theleaders or advance portion of the swarm from a force pump, firing agun among them, or throwing the reflection from a mirror on them willdisconcert the absconding swarm and nearly always cause the bees tosettle, but the remedy must be at hand and applied instantly. When a swarm has fairly settled it is best to hive it as soon as possible.lest others coming out may join it, occasioning a loss of queens, andsometimes of bees, or much trouble in separating them. The operationof hiving may appear very formidable to the novice and attended with 96 96 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. great risks, but a little experience will dispel such apprehensions. Thebees before swarming usually fill their sacs with honey and are quitepeaceable, so that by the use of a little smoke in hiving there is seldom
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Fig. 67.—Hiving a swarrn. (Original—from photograph.) any difficulty. But to be doubly sure the novice should sprinkle sweet-ened water over the cluster, and at the same time wear a veil to protecthis face. Of course, the hive has been ready for some time and has beenstanding in the shade so it will not be heated. If the cluster should be HIVING BEES—CLIPPING QUEENS. 97 on a small limb which can be readily cut off. it can be laid down in frontof the new hive, which should have a full-width entrance or be raisedup in front. The bees will go trooping in, but if not fast enough gentleurging of the rear guard with a feather will hasten matters. If thebees have clustered on a branch which it is desirable to preserve, yetwhere the hive can conveniently be placed directly under the clusterand close to it. the swarm may be shaken into the hive at once (fig. 67);or the hive may be located on the stand it is to occupy and the beesshaken into a large basket or into a regular swarm catcher

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