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TRANSFERRING. 



the old box hive. Drum the bees into a box 

 as previously described. With a cold-chisel 

 cut the nails so that one side can be re- 

 moved. After the side is taken off, arrange 

 every thing as compactly as possible. This 

 done, step inside the tent, grasp tlie inter- 

 sections and "spread" yourself, as it were, 

 over your w^ork. 



The operator inside has the old hive from 

 which he is transferring, together with the 

 new hive and all necessary fixtures for hold- 

 ing the combs in the frames. Besides these 

 he has a saw, chisel, thin-bladed knife, smo- 

 ker, bee-brush, a large shallow drip-pan to 

 catch drippings of honey, and clean wired 

 frames. To make his work as easy as possi- 



hive over it, making all the joints bee-tight. 

 Now hang frames filled with foundation in 

 this new hive, and the bees will soon work 

 up into it. After the queen gets to laying 

 in these combs the bees will soon all move 

 up into it, when you can lift it oft' and trans- 

 fer, or do what you please with the old hive 

 and combs. Where you are hurried , this plan 

 gets your stock gradually into improved 

 hives without very much trouble, and no 

 mussing with dripping honey. 



HEDDON SHORT WAY OF TRANSFEHRING. 



The prying off the hive-side, incurring the 

 risk of robbers, cutting brood, and all other 

 incidental difficulties of older metliods in 



MIKE WALL, TEMPE, ARIZ., AND PILE OF ODD-SIZED FRAMES FROM WHICH HE HAD CUT THE 

 COMB AND FITTED THEM INTO LANGSTROTH FRAMES. 



ble, he sits on a tool-box. In case he wants 

 a frame or tool wliich by oversight he does 

 not happen to have, an assistant, who may 

 be engaged elsewhere in the apiary, at a call 

 brings him whatever he desires. In the en- 

 graying the assistant is in the act of passing 

 an empty comb under the mosquito-netting. 

 One may think that transferring in this 

 tent is pretty close work, but we have trans- 

 ferred in this way a number of times easily 

 and successfully, and the tent proved no 

 real hindrance. 



A SHORT WAY OF TRANSFERRING. 



A little before swarming-time, pry the top 

 from the box hive and set a single-story 



transferring, suggested to Mr. James Iled- 

 don a new way that will commend itself es- 

 pecially to beginners who dread stings and 

 the " awful sticky " job. Foundation is now 

 so cheap, and combs built from it so much 

 superior to those built naturally, while the 

 combs in box hives are almost universally 

 crooked, we believe our readers will, on the 

 whole, do better to follow the Ileddon sliort 

 method. Indeed, whenever we have occa- 

 sion to transfer we use it exclusively. 



Let us assume that the hives, having been 

 received in the flat, are put together and 

 painted, and contain frames of wired foun- 

 dation ready for the bees. Light the smoker 

 and use a bee-veil. Move the old hive back 



