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When boxes are to be taken off, use tobacco 

 smoke freely, to quiet the anger of the bees. Pufl" 

 smoke in at the entrance of the hive, before you 

 touch it, then start the top boxes from their fasten- 

 ing, giving the bees a puff or tv^^o of smoke at every 

 crevice about the boxes at the top and sides. 



Care of Honey in Boxes in Warm Weather. 



Considerable care is necessary for the preserva- 

 tion of honey in boxes removed from the hives in 

 warm weather. As soon as the bees are all out 

 of the boxes, seal up all openings to the boxes, and 

 set them away (in the same position they occupied 

 in the hive, so the honey will not leak from the 

 cells) in a dry^ dark, cool room. We must now 

 guard against the moth. 



As in warm weather the instincts of the fly is di- 

 rected to the dead carcass, so is the moth directed to 

 honey-comb left without bees in the summer sea- 

 son, and by a similar process is each destroyed. 

 When the bees have been ofl: about ten days, 

 or perhaps a little less if the weather is very warm, 

 examine closely for the first appearance of the moth 

 worms on the surface of the combs in the boxes. 

 Their presence may be known by small thread-like 

 webs or cocoons on the surface of the comb, grow- 

 ing larger as the moth worm enlarges in growth. 

 If no remedy is applied, these worms will com- 

 pletely destroy the beauty of the honey in the boxes 

 in a very few days. Watch the boxes closely, and 

 on \hejirst appearance of the least sign of worms 

 in the boxes fumigate with burning sulphur, thus : 



