. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. SWARMING. 252 SWARMING. trouble as possible, to put in the new hive, to prevent them from decamping. All these things tiike time, and more than one swarm have departed while a hive was being made ready to receive them. If you keep the wings of your queens clipped as I have ad- vised, you will need some queen-cages where you can lay your hands on them at a min- ute's notice, for there are times when you need to step about as lively as you would if a house were on fire, and you do not want to be bot
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. SWARMING. 252 SWARMING. trouble as possible, to put in the new hive, to prevent them from decamping. All these things tiike time, and more than one swarm have departed while a hive was being made ready to receive them. If you keep the wings of your queens clipped as I have ad- vised, you will need some queen-cages where you can lay your hands on them at a min- ute's notice, for there are times when you need to step about as lively as you would if a house were on fire, and you do not want to be bothered by hunting for things. N. N. Shepard, of Cochrantoii, Pa., gives a plan of an apparatus for hiving swarms, with some excellent instructions for using it. Below we give the letter with an engrav- ing of the swarming-box: SWARMS AND SWARMING; HOW TO MANAGE. For the first two or three years of my bee-keeping-, When I had only from 10 to 30 colonies, I lost by hav- ing swarms leave me, also by having larg-e first swarms go together when they came out nearly at the same time. After j'ears of experience and practice, I have learned that I can prevent both their going to the woods and their going together; and for the last fi^?e or six j'ears, thongh T have in- creased ray number to 100 swarms, and, some sea- sons, to 200,1 have not lost a swarm, nor had two large swarms get together; but this result I eould never have reached, except bj'the help of certain implements which I use in swarming-tiine. With these I can attend to 100 colonies as easily as I could to 20 without them, and, at the same time, be more sure of keeping them separate. With these I can hive all my swarms and stand on the ground; I cut nt> limbs off,and I brush no bees from bodies and large limbs of trees. Let them swarm as fast as they please, 10 or 15 in an hour, I can take care of them, and keep them all separate, and it is only fun. I do not dread the " everlasting swarm- ; With these you
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