. The Canadian bee-keeper's guide [microform] : an easy method of managing bees by the use of Thomas' patent moveable comb bee hive. Bees; Bees; Essaimage; Abeilles. 32 i ! i !. THE CANADIAN Renewing of th^ Combs. Old and worthless combs may be easily renewed witli my hlvv by taking out a frame or two in the spring, and putting i„ emptv frames in which the bees will build new comb, then others may be removed and so continued to do until all the combs are re- newed. How to Drive Bees. It is often necessary to drive bees from old box hives and bv many it is thought to be a diflieult task. Such,
. The Canadian bee-keeper's guide [microform] : an easy method of managing bees by the use of Thomas' patent moveable comb bee hive. Bees; Bees; Essaimage; Abeilles. 32 i ! i !. THE CANADIAN Renewing of th^ Combs. Old and worthless combs may be easily renewed witli my hlvv by taking out a frame or two in the spring, and putting i„ emptv frames in which the bees will build new comb, then others may be removed and so continued to do until all the combs are re- newed. How to Drive Bees. It is often necessary to drive bees from old box hives and bv many it is thought to be a diflieult task. Such, however, is not the case : a most any person can do it without diinculty. When it IS desirable to drive a colony, take a dish of smoking chins or my fumigator, and go to the stock you wish to u httle smoke m at the entrance, give a fm raps on the hive • the bees, thinking they are to be ejected (and they think right this time), rush to the cells and fill themselves with lionev Xow tako up the hive and carry it iive or six rods from the stand; blow under itjsome more smoke, and then turn it over bottom side uo wards : now take another old hive or box of convenient size, and turnit oyer on the hive ; if it tits, all right, if not lay on omc chips, shingles, weeds or anything else that will stop the holes somewhat; then with a stick rap on the hive, if thi bees make their appearance at the holes or cracks, blow u little smoke on them ; continue the rapping for twenty minutes or half an hour at most, and the work is done. Now lift off the box careful y?and set where you please, or do what you like with the bees, the ame as If they were a swarm just issued. It is always well to pU some old box on the stand where the hive stood,^whUe you ^^' operating as a decoy hive around which the bees w 11 fly that come m from the field and so keep them from going into o^the hTves ]!?r'T/'^I^ of getting stung by those bees you are drivhio- but look out for those bees that hang aro
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