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remove the glass in the sides of the boxes, if the cover is 
not fastened to it. The greater part of the bees from 
these boxes will return to their hives ; excepting a very 
few young ones which had never before been away from 
the hive; these will be lost. 
When boxes are to be taken off, use tobacco smoke 
freely, to quiet the anger of the bees. Puff smoke in at 
the entrance of the hive, before you touch it, then start 
the top boxes from their fastenings, yiving the bees a 
puff or two 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 preservation 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. 
the brood section, and when close up to the combs of the hive, let it remain 
to keep the bees from spreading over the bottom till you get the box frame 
down in its place, then remove it, and push the box frame up close to the 
prood section, so the ends of the boxes will be as near the brood combs as 
the partition was when the combs were built. If this is not done, and a 
large space is left, the bees will either lengthen the cells in the outer comb 
of the brood section, or build a new comb between the ends of the boxes and 
the outer comb of the brood section. In either case we would find it very 
troublesome when we remove the boxes, and wish to put in the partition for 
wintering. Be sure to put the large box frame up close to the combs of the 
brood section, that is leave barely space enough for the bees to pass between 
the ends of the boxes and the outer comb of the brood section. 
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