. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming ... Bees; Bees. TRAN8FERKING FROM BOX HIVES TO MOVABLE FRAMES. 59 as may be out seeking their old hive. These will cluster upon the comb thus furnished them, till they are wanted, and be prevented from entering other contiguous hives. Place the driving box upon the box hive, so that they will exactly fit each other, mouth to mouth, tacking the two together with a couple of nails, and with rags close every crevice, so that not a bee shall e
. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming ... Bees; Bees. TRAN8FERKING FROM BOX HIVES TO MOVABLE FRAMES. 59 as may be out seeking their old hive. These will cluster upon the comb thus furnished them, till they are wanted, and be prevented from entering other contiguous hives. Place the driving box upon the box hive, so that they will exactly fit each other, mouth to mouth, tacking the two together with a couple of nails, and with rags close every crevice, so that not a bee shall escape. Now lightly rap on the top-—now bottom—of the hive, grad- ually moving up, from fifteen to thirty minutes. By this time nearly all the bees will have ascended into the top box, which will be known by the humming noise within, on applying the ear to the side of the hive. A window of glass, or wire cloth, provided with a shutter, may be in- serted in the side of the driving box, through which to see the bees. If the driving box have sticks nailed across its interior, for the bees to cluster upon, all the better. When the bees have nearly all ascended into the top box, it is to be removed, and a cloth, or wire curtain, open enough to give plenty of fresh air, is to be placed over its mouth, to prevent the escape of the bees, letting it stand in a cool, shady place while transferring the comb. After removing the side of the box running nearest parallel with the comb, as care- fully as possible, cut out one card, placing it upon a common tea salver, and with a frame lying upon it in such a manner that the honey and breeding cells shall re- main in the same relative posi- tion in the frame that they occu- pied in the hive, as in Fig. 28, cut the comb a trifle larger than to fit, so as the better to fasten it. 28 —Comb fitted for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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