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Bees Successfully." If, however, the bees are 

 to be carted back home in the fall to be placed 

 in the cellar, great care should be used in 

 preparing and carting them. 



To prepare the bees properly for carting 

 to the home for cellar wintering the follow- 

 ing is a most excellent plan : For each hive 

 to be moved, take some wooden strips about 

 an inch wide and about seven-eighths of an inch 

 thick, and make frames just the size of the top 

 and bottom of the hive; over these frames 

 tack securely some ordinary mosquito wire- 

 netting, and after all the bees are in their 

 hives nail one of these frames to both the top 

 and the bottom of the hive, and it is ready for 

 moving either by wagon or train. As an 

 extra precaution against smothering the bees, 

 it is well to tack or nail an extra strip of wood 

 on the front ends of the bottom screen to 

 elevate it above the floor of the wagon or car, 

 as this will give a free circulation of air for the 

 colony and insure their better condition when 

 arriving at their destination. Some of the 



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