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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



ing (Fig. 72). Then over the super is thrown what 

 Root's "A B C of Bee Culture" has been pleased to call 

 the ]\Iiller tent-escape (Fig. 73). (Later on Fll tell how 

 it's made). When a second super is brought to the pile, 

 the escape is kicked off, the super placed on the pile and 

 the escape thrown over it. When the pile becomes too 

 high to kick off the escape, it is shoved off with the 

 hand, but still allowed to fall to the ground, and after- 

 ward picked up. 



Fig. 66. — Colony at left treated for sicanning. 



The bees can now make their exit through the top 

 of the escape at their leisure, and from time to time those 

 that have gathered on the wirecloth below are allowed to 

 escape. ^Matters may be hurried up a little by blowing 

 in smoke below. But this is hardly advisable, for the 

 smoke, being more or less confined, is likely to give an 

 unpleasant flavor to the sections. When there is abun- 

 dance of time for the bees to get out without being hur- 

 ried, or if the pile is only five or six high, it is better 

 not to have any opening at the bottom of the pile, but to 



