Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 212
eat fish.—Raymond L. Ditmars. how bees swarm Comstock, Nebraska.Dear St. Nicholas : When the weather gets warm andthe beehives are full of bees they begin to get ready toswarm. They raise a dozen or more young queens, butthe old one generally goes with the first swarm. Theycome out in the air, fly… … than half an hour, and sometimes they hang all day beforethey go away. When we go to get them we spread a sheetdown in front of the hive and shake the bees on it and theyrun in. If they light on a tree we sometimes cut the branchoff and carry it to the hive. They quite often settle on atree, and we…
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