HIVING BY MEANS OF DIVIDERS. 151 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



SUPER- AND NADIR-HIVING BY MEANS OF 

 DIVIDERS. 



WHEN one hive or box is to be raised upon another 

 in a bee-house, the operation may be performed 

 at any time ; the best time is about ten or eleven 

 o'clock in the morning, when a great portion of 

 the bees are ranging the fields. If the bees be 

 kept in an out-door hive, the operation will be 

 best performed in an evening or early in a morn- 

 ing, when, all the bees being at home, they may 

 be shut in and thereby prevented from annoying 

 the operator. 



If super-hiving be the object of the apiarian, he 

 must first withdraw the four screws out of the top 

 board of his stock hive or box, so as to enable 

 him to push one of his dividers from front to back, 

 between that board and the box which it covers ; 

 he may then safely take off the top, and screw it 

 upon an empty box. (He would of course be en- 

 abled to accomplish the business with more 

 promptitude, if he have a supernumerary top 

 already screwed down.) Having put the fresh box 

 upon a middle board, the whole is to be carefully 

 placed upon the divider, that covers the stock : 

 when accurately adjusted to each other, if an 



