232 THE BEE-KEEPER § MANUAL. 
Payne continues: ‘Take the latter immediately to 
the place where the driven hive was taken from, and 
place it upon the same floor-board. Carry the 
driven hive fifty or sixty yards away; the few bees 
that remain in it, as well as those that are out 
at work, will return to the other hive at the 
accustomed spot. All is now finished until an hour 
after sunset (excepting emptying the driven hive of 
its store), when two sticks may be laid upon the 
ground, about nine inches apart, opposite the 
stock-hive to which the driven bees are to be 
joined; then with a smart stroke dash out the bees 
between the sticks; and instantly, but gently, place 
the stock-hive over them upon the sticks: leave 
them for the night, protecting them from the 
weather, and an hour before sunrise restore the 
stock-hive to its original position. Here will be an 
increased population, enabled to stand through the 
winter much better, and to send out an earlier 
swarm, than if the union had not been effected.” 
The autumnal driving of bees is a common 
practice when the proprietors reside within a few 
miles of the moors and heaths, to which the hives 
are conveyed in time to luxuriate in a second 
harvest of blossom from the heather. In such dis- 
tricts, it is not unusual to appropriate or transfer 
the whole contents of the driven hive; the bees 
being compelled to begin the world again in a new 
house and locality, like a recent swarm. Two or 
three small families may be better driven into one. 
In a good season, a few weeks suffice to enable 
them to fill their second dwelling with combs, brood, 
