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If the bees are permitted to enter the cham- 

 ber in very warm weather, they will be likely 

 to hold the occupancy of it, and build comb 

 there, which will change the hive into one no 

 better than an old-fashioned box. 



I have succeeded best in removing honey 

 by the following method, to wit : — Shut the 

 window-blinds so as to darken one of the rooms 

 in the dwelling-house — raise up one casement 

 of a window — then carry the drawer and place 

 the same on a table, or stand, by the v/indow, 

 on its light or glass end, with the aperture? 

 towards the light. Now remove the slide, and 

 step immediately back into the dark part of 

 the room. The bees will soon learn their true 

 condition, and will gradually leave the draw- 

 er, and return home to the parent stock ; thus 

 leaving the drawer and its contents for their 

 owner ; not however until they have sucked 

 every drop of running honey, if there should 

 chance to be any, which is not often the case, 

 if their work is finished. 



There are two cases in which the bees 

 manifest some reluctance in leaving the draw- 



