3lic cloth. The fumes rising from the carbolic cloth will 

 3 the bees to gorge (63) and drive them upwards. Now 

 ! the bucket about ten to twenty yards from the skep. After 

 i minutes remove the stone, let the skep down on the car- 

 cloth, and then lift and invert the skep, taking care that 

 louth is entirely covered by the cloth, thus confining the 

 therein ; then place the inverted skep in the bucket and 

 a empty skep into position on the stock hive, as indicated 

 ig. 29, using the skewer to pin the skeps together where 

 rims meet, and the driving irons to hold the empty skep 

 B proper angle ; the skeps should be skewered together at 

 point on the rim of the invertea skep towards which the 

 IS run. Next remove the carbolic cloth, and rap the 

 r hive sharply with the hands so as to jar the combs 

 out detaching tliem ; the bees will soon run up into the 

 iy skep, during which period a careful watch should be 

 for the queen, as it is important that the operator should 

 vare that she has passed into the upper skep. The skeps 

 Id be so placed that the operator when driving shall have 

 ack to the strongest light. When all 'the bees, or as many 

 re required, have been driven, the driving irons may be 

 )ved and the new hive with the driven lot may be covered 

 for removal, or if it is desired to catch the flying bees in it, 

 Duld be placed on the old skep stand ; the hive from which 

 bees were driven should be replaced on its stand if it is 

 ided that the flying bees shall return to it; whereas if all 

 have been driven from it in order that the honey comb 

 be removed, it should be covered and put away so that no 

 can get at it. 



)ld or wet weather, or late in the evening, driven bees are 



slow to go up into the new hive ; in such 



Close Driving, circumstances it is best to place the new 



skep or hive directly on the top of the old 



and to fix it there with skewers so that the bees will not 



)le to escape ; proceed then as in open drivitig (82). This 



lied "close driving." The dravvback to this method is 



the queen's movements cannot be/,observed. 



e stock which is to be transferred is in a wooden box, the 



same procedure should be adopted, except 



Driving Bees that a light box may be used in preference 



from a Box. to a skep for driving the bees into. This 



receiving-box should be fixed in position 



the inverted box hive and held there by two nails ; to avoid 



rbing the bees before driving is commenced, the nails 



Id be driven through the rim of the upper box before it is 



;d in position, and holes to receive them should be bored in 



im of the lower box, after which the nails should be driven 



}. If necessary, the upper box may be further supported 



le or two laths tacked to the side of each box. 



