150 REMOVING BEES FROM STRAW HIVES. 



having adjusted the whole, withdraw the divider , 

 the bees will soon desist from carrying on their 

 works in the hive, and commence new ones in the 

 upper box ; the hive at the period of deprivation 

 may be separated from the boxes in the usual 

 way. 



The middle board that is used on this occasion, 

 provided the colony be designed to stand out of 

 doors, must have a resting board attached to the 

 edge of it, for the bees to alight upon. And as it 

 is intended to serve as a substitute for a floor 

 board, it must be made to correspond with the 

 floor boards in its construction, so far as respects 

 its giving liberty for the bees to have ingress and 

 egress, and its affording a power to shut them in. 



If it should be thought more convenient, an 

 entrance could readily be formed, by cutting a 

 piece out of the lower edge of the box, in which 

 also a groove might be cut for a slide to run in. 



