20 Bee-Kceping Simplified for the 
up into the roof. The hive is completed by putting on the lift 
and roof. 
The swarm should be hived into the frame hive by running 
the bees in at the entrance. To accomplish this, place a board 
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the same width as the alighting board, and from two to three 
feet long, sloping trom it to the ground; prop up the brood 
chamber at the front with wedges to give an entrance 1} inches 
deep. Take the skep or box in which the bees have been 
placed temporarily, or in which they have travelled after 
purchase (if the latter, the enclosing material of cheese- 
straining cloth or perforated zinc lid must be removed), hold it 
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between the hands, mouth downwards, about a foot away 
from the entrance, and with vigorous downward jerks shake 
the bees out on to the cloth. Their natural inclination of 
creeping uphill asserts itself, and they travel into the new 
home very quickly, Fig. 21. It is advisable to watch and see that 
the queen enters safely. At night the brood chamber is lowered 
to its normal position. A bottle of cane sugar syrup must 
be given over the feedhole in the calico quilt (see ‘Feeders 
