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which the bees are to be removed. A stand is constructed in such a 

 position as to place the entrance of the hive in as close proximity to 

 the flight hole as possible. The flight hole in the tree is covered with 

 wire screen or boards, and provision is made in this cover for a 

 Poi-ter bee escape or wire cone, affording an exit for the bees but 

 permitting no entrance from without. Several of these escapes work 

 to good advantage in emptying a tree. The returning bees, loaded 

 down with pollen and nectar, failing to find entrance to their old 

 home, soon enter the hive on the stand, and, as this colony is weak, 

 there is very little trouble. The bees are left to work out their own 

 salvation, and in about one month's time all the brood in the tree 

 will have hatched. The queen, left alone, soon dies. Then the wire 

 screen or covering can be removed from the opening in the tree and 

 the bees allowed to rob their old home, which they will proceed to do 

 in a very short time. By this method the tree, bees, and honey are 

 all saved, with no disagreeable labor attached. Last year the writer 

 removed nine colonies from trees within a radius of half a mile 

 by this method, and one colony produced over 250 poimds of honey. 



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