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bees. They will become scented alike 

 before mixing, and there is never any 

 fighting, with me. If one queen is poor, 

 kill her before uniting. If they are 

 equally good, let the bees decide the 

 matter. — B. Taylok. 



Simply put the two together after it 

 has become so cool that bees do not fly 

 much. Lean a wide board over the en- 

 trance of the hive into which they are 

 put. Sometimes it is best to smoke 

 them thoroughly. — J. A. Gkeen. 



At a time when the weather is so cool 

 that no bees are flying, I set one hive 

 upon the other — of course first removing 

 the bottom-board of the upper hive, and 

 the cover of the lower one. In a few 

 days the bees will usually unite without 

 farther attention. — R. L. Taylor. 



Shake two or more weak colonies to- 

 gether in an empty hive, close it up 

 awhile, then give them their honey and 

 brood, and the best queen of the lot, by 

 introducing her by the candy plan. See 

 that they have plenty of honey for the 

 winter, and the job is over. — Mrs. Jen- 

 nie Atchley. 



Either place the hive containing the 

 weaker colony on the other, or remove 

 enough frames from the one to put in 

 the brood-nest of the other during a 

 cool evening when they are not disposed 

 to fly. Kill the poorer queen previously, 

 so they may have but one queen. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



Set one hive on the other, allowing 

 each colony its own entrance, with pas- 

 sage from one hive to the other only 

 large enough for one or two bees at a 

 time. This passage is to be enlarged in 

 a day or two, or if heavy paper separates 

 the hives, the bees will enlarge the pas- 

 sage.— C. C. Miller. 



Smoke well the bees to be united. 

 Select the best frames of comb, and 

 place them with the adhering bees al- 

 ternately in the hive to receive them. 

 Do this after sundown. If there is any 

 choice of queens, cage the best. IJ(!tter 

 pinch the heads off the inferior ones be- 

 fore uniting.— J. P. H. Brown. 



Near night, when too cool for thorn to 

 fly much, put the hives on a wheelbar- 

 row and " trundle " them to where you 

 wish the hive of the united colony to 

 stand, smoking thoroughly before load- 

 ing. In unloading, jar about much, and 

 when the bees are filled with honey, say 

 five to eight minutes from the time of 

 smoking, unite as you wish. Remove 

 all signs of " home " from the old stand, 

 and no loss will occur.— G. M. Doolit- 



TLK. 



Select the best queen ; then take a 

 frame of brood and bees alternately 

 from each hive, and fill up the new one. 

 Ordinarily golden-rod is being gathered, 

 so no trouble arises from want of stores 

 to gather. If no stores are being gath- 

 ered at the time of uniting, I feed for a 

 few days before and after the union. I 

 don't have trouble in one case in a hun- 

 dred. — J. E. Pond. 



I have not done very much uniting, so 

 I can hardly say that I have a favorite 

 way. By spraying the bees with sweet- 

 ened water strongly scented with pepper- 

 mint, they unite readily, either by alter- 

 nating the combs, or by shaking the bees 

 down together in front of the hive they 

 are to occupy. If the hives are not side 

 by side, the latter is the better way. If 

 you put slices of onion in the hives, the 

 bees will unite without trouble. I have 

 tried this plan with entire success. — M. 

 Maiiin. 



First, I place the colonies that are to 

 be united near together. Second, when 

 they have marked their location, I re- 

 move part of the combs, leaving only 

 those that I propose to put into the 

 united colony, and remove the queen at 

 the same time. The queen that I choose 

 for the united colony, remains for the 

 present. Third, I take a hive that be- 

 longed to neither of them, brush off the 

 bees from the combs in front of it, which 

 they enter and unite peaceably. — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison. 



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