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sections picked out as fast as completed, and* replaced with empty 

 ones. Where there are a large number of hives with the boxes 

 mostly filled, the former plan is perhaps the better one, although 



there is little choice between them. 



Fig. 1462.— Langstroth Hive to Take a Sim- 

 plicity Upper Story. 



The bees will work on sections 

 partly filled from another hive 

 just as well as on those from 

 their own. Tin separators 

 should always be used if clean 

 and true work is desired. 



To get the bees out of boxes, 

 or off from comb honey, re- 

 quires very nice work. As good 

 a way as any that we have seen 

 suggested is to prepare a close- 

 fitting box with a place of exit 

 similar to that of the chaff hive, 

 and over this exit arrange a 

 sort of trap of the following 

 kind, so that the bees can pass 

 only one way : Take a wooden bar about the size of a lead-pencil, 

 and stick through it a row of common pins, about seven to the inch ; 

 this is to be swung on pivots, so that the pin points may rest on 

 the "jumping-off board." If the comb honey be placed inside this 

 box, the bees will gradually work their way out, while none can 

 get in. 



Hives are subjected to robbery by such invaders as grubs, slugs, 

 bee moths, robber bees, and other insects. The method of defense 

 on the part of bees against these enemies is generally to sting them to 

 death ; but they should be assisted by careful attention to these mat- 

 ters on the part of the keeper. 



Hives. 



Nearly all modern hives are good, and there is a great variety, 

 from the most simple to the most complex, each having more or less 

 excellent points of advantage, with some features of disadvantage. 

 This question comprises, in all its ramificatibns, a subject of consid- 

 erable importance, upon which we have not time to dwell, more than 

 to say, if you wish to secure an improved hive, and know its special 

 advantages, consult the makers or those interested in their manu- 

 facture. ' 



Mr. Root has devised a hive with a permanent bottom-board 

 and the old Langstroth portico, with the regular Simplicity hive for 



