. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ^ijkA^. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanoeways' Printinq Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus.' [No. 258. Vol. XV.] JUNE 2, 1887. [Published "Weekly.] (Sffoitorml, Halites, #t. OUTLINES OF BEE-KEEPING FOE BEGINNERS. ( Continued from page 212.) XT.—How to Put a Swarm into a Hive. 1. The bees which leave the hive to swarm fly out in large numbers, thousands of them wheeling about in circles so that the air seems alive with bees. They soon settle, usually on some bush or tree at a short distance from the hive, and f
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ^ijkA^. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanoeways' Printinq Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus.' [No. 258. Vol. XV.] JUNE 2, 1887. [Published "Weekly.] (Sffoitorml, Halites, #t. OUTLINES OF BEE-KEEPING FOE BEGINNERS. ( Continued from page 212.) XT.—How to Put a Swarm into a Hive. 1. The bees which leave the hive to swarm fly out in large numbers, thousands of them wheeling about in circles so that the air seems alive with bees. They soon settle, usually on some bush or tree at a short distance from the hive, and form a cluster, which grows larger and larger as the straggling bees join it. As soon as most of them have settled and become quiet the swarm should be placed in a hive, or it will of its own accord seek a home and be probably lost to the bee- keeper, as under such circumstances bees will sometimes fly a great distance before they settle again. 2. If the queen does not join the bees when clustered, they return to the old hive. They will also leave the hive if the queen be not secured with the bees when the swarm is hived. Some- . times swarms do not seem inclined to cluster; and if the bee-keeper sees that they rise higher and higher into the air, he should endeavour to stop their flight by throwing water from a syringe over them in such a way as to resemble rain. This will generally have the effect of making them settle at once. 3. If the bees have settled on a bush near the ground, sprinkle them with cold water from a garden syringe and close clustering will be the result. Spread a cloth under the cluster, and at one end place a floor-board, bringing the end of the cloth over the edge of the board and place the hive on it with the front, as near as possible to the cluster, propped up about one and a half inches by means of a stone or block of wood. With a sudden jerk dislodge the bees on to the cloth in front of the hive, which they will quickly enter. 4. If the branch on wh
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