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MAKING A START WITH BEES 



by closing up all possible openings except one. Over this should 

 be placed a bee-escape, either a Porter escape or a long wire cone, 

 through which the bees can come out but cannot find the way 

 back. A hive containing full combs or sheets of foundation 

 should then be brought and placed with the entrance as near as 

 possible to the escape (Fig. 18). In the hive should be placed 



Fig. 18. — Transferring from hollow tree without cutting the tree. 



one frame of brood, care being used to insure that eggs and hatch- 

 ing larva3 are both present. The bees coming out and unable to 

 find their way back will enter this hive. Within a few days the 

 bees will nearly all be in the hive, and the young bees emerging 

 inside will shortly follow their fellows outside, to be barred from 

 returning. As a result the entire colony with the exception of 

 a very few bees will be in the new hive. The bees in the hive 



