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no projection whatever, the entire process will be more 
satisfactory and expeditious. 
For Export, 
additional care will be necessary, while a sponge must be 
provided at one side in a perforated box, with directions 
requesting that the same may be moistened occasionally ; 
or a zinc vessel may be supplied with a cotton wick held 
in a funnel reaching nearly to the bottom that the water 
cannot be spilled. 
It may be necessary, according to the strength of the 
colony, to give an outer case, thoroughly ventilated to. 
provide for excessive heat ; though when it is known that 
bees have to undergo a high temperature, a nucleus only 
will travel far better and give more satisfactory results 
than a full colony. 
On Receipt of the Bees, 
they should be placed out where they are to stand 
permanently, The packing need not be removed for 
a day or so, but the entrances. are to be opened as 
soon as the bees are a little quiet. Do not liberate each 
hive in rotation, but go from one spot to another as far 
distant as possible, and so let the first quiet down before . 
a neighbouring hive is opened. 
It is well not to examine the interior of the hives until 
the bees have first noted their location; but it will then 
be necessary to determine if any queens have been lost, 
which frequently is the case. Where any are missing it 
will be desirable to unite to others at once if this happens 
to be the first venture of the apiarist ; but when other 
colonies are on hand one may be able to insert another 
rather than unite. 
Moving Bees Short Distances. 
I am frequently asked how it is possibie to move bees 
