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held by one comer and one side iiud then 

 the other hi brushed as shown in the 

 views below. Or, if preferred, the comb 



Uie luce. Tlie few remaining bees are llieu 

 dislodged with the brush, as before explain- 

 ed. In this way one or more supers on the 

 carrier are filled with combs, and are then 

 wheeled to the extracting-house. Arriving 

 here they are taken care of by a couple of 

 helpers. We then take back with us on the 

 cart four other empty supers, which are 

 tilled as were the others ; but where one car- 

 ries on bee-keeping in a limited way, an 

 ordinary wheelbarrow with two supers on 

 would answer. In that case one operator 

 might take off combs, run them into the 

 extracting-house, extract them, bring them 

 back, and put them on the hive again. Or 

 he might put in the house a dozen or so of 

 supers and then extract. The method or 

 methods can be varied to suit the individ- 

 ual conditions that may exist : but in any 

 case the importance of having pants tucked 

 in the tops of boots, or, if shoes are worn, 

 in the tops of the stockings, is urged : 

 for, during the operation of shaking, 

 the combs the bees will almost surely try 

 to crawl up one's trousers legs. It would 

 also be a wise precaution to have long 



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may be rested on the hive, and brushed. 

 We then place the frame in one of the 

 supers on the cart or barrow. The next 

 comb is then removed : but instead of being 

 shaken in jront of the entrance it is shaken in 



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sleeves, on the ends of which are sewed 

 gloves having the finger-tips all cut off. 

 These, when put on over the coat or shirt 

 sleeves, will prevent the bees from crawl- 

 ing up the sleeves or attacking the wrists. 

 But all this annoyance of bees crawling 

 up the trousers legs, and shaking and 

 brushing off the bees, stings, and robbers, 

 may be avoided by the use of the bee- 



escape. If there are a himdred supers to 

 extract the next day, a hundred bee-escapes 

 can be placed under the supers the night 

 before: then during the afternoon of the day 

 following one can go to the hives and take 

 off super after super, and find scarcely a bee 

 on a comb : nor does it in any way anger any 

 of the colonies. A little smoke at tlie en- 



