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to carry their stores into a super, though they some- 
times afterwards remove them into the stock-hive. 
In cases where doubt exists as to a sufficiency of 
winter store, it is often well to allow them to do 
this; recollecting the further advice of Dr. Bevan, 
that “it should be an invariable rule never to 
remove an upper box or hive till an under one is 
quite full; nor to diminish the weight of a 
stock-box below seventeen or eighteen pounds, ex- 
clusive of the box itself.” 
To remove a full Box or Super.—The middle of a 
sunny day may be recommended as the best time to 
take away for deprivation a box or glass of honey. 
The mode usually adopted is at once to remove it 
from its position to a distance from the stock-hive, 
and there get rid of the bees. I have often found 
it well to reverse this proceeding. Whether the box 
to be taken is a collateral or storified one, let the 
communication from the parent hive be previously 
cut off, and without any jarring. Entire quietness 
is the main requisite. Gently lift up the super on 
one side, inserting under it a small wedge or two, so 
as just to allow an exit for the bees (the bee-trap 
of page 169 may here be utilised). It should thus 
be left for about an hour, during which they will 
repair the cells that have been severed in the pro- 
cess. A little smoke may then be blown in beneath, 
or a few puffs from a pair of bellows given above the 
bars. Those who have used an adapter in addition 
to a crown-board, or a double adapting-board, will, 
of course, retain the upper board with the super, 
disconnecting the two boards instead; a slide, in 
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