Ys GY ; 4 
Sea 
Fig. 20. Root hive tool (redrawn). 
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Fig. 21. Cheny hive tool. 
bending the same end in the direction opposite to the end which 
is bent for scraping (Fig. 21). When two supers suddenly part 
when inserting the Root hive tool the thumb nail is sometimes in- 
jured. With Doctor Cheney’s modified hive tool this does not occur. 
Bee Escape 
When supers are to be removed from the hive it is desirable 
that the bees first be removed from them. When producing extracted 
honey it is possible to do this by driving the majority of them from 
the super by smoking and brushing off the remainder with a bee 
Fig. 22. Bee brush Gedleswnl, 
brush made for the purpose (Fig. 22). This is impractical when 
comb honey is to be taken as the bees, following their instinct 
to fill with honey when smoked and finding no uncapped honey in 
the super, make holes in the cappings which spoil it for marketing. 
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