34 MAKING A START WITH BEES 
by closing up all possible openings except one. Over this should 
be placed a bee-escape, either a Porter escape or a long wire cone, 
through which the bees can come out but cannot find the way 
back. <A hive containing full combs or sheets of foundation 
should then be brought and placed with the entrance as near as 
possible to the escape (Fig. 18). In the hive should be placed 
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Fie. 18.—Transferring from hollow tree without cutting the tree. 
one frame of brood, care being used to insure that eges and hatch- 
ing larvee are both present. The bees coming out and unable to 
find their way back will enter this hive. Within a few days the 
bees will nearly all be in the hive, and the young bees emerging 
inside will shortly follow their fellows outside, to be barred from 
returning. .\s a result the entire colony with the exception of 
a very few bees will be in the new hive. The bees in the hive 
