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HOW FOUND. 



lu the morning, when cool, raise the hive, and you 

 will find them on the board. You mnst not suppose 

 that these chaps are bred outside the hive, got their 

 growth, and are now on- their way among the bees, 

 but the reverse. They are Ired in the hive, and most 

 of them are on the way out, and this is the precise 

 time to arrest them and bring them to justice for their 

 crimes. 



A TOOL FOB THEIR DBSTETJCTIOH', 



I have used a simple tool, made in a few minutes, 

 and very convenient in this business.- Any one can 

 make it. Get a piece of narrow hoop-iron, (steel 

 would be better,) three-fourth inch wide, five inches 

 long ; taper from one side three inches from the end' 

 to a point ; then grind each edge sharp ; make three 

 or four holes through the wide end, to admit small 

 nails through it in the handle, which should be about 

 two feet long and about half an inch square. Armed 

 with this weapon, you can proceed. Eaise the hive 

 on one edge, and with the point of your sword you 

 may pick a worm out of the closest corner, and easily 

 scrape all irom under the hive with it. Now, he sure 

 and dispatch every one ; not that the ' ' little victim " will 

 itself, personally, do much more mischief; but through, 

 its descendants the mischief is to be apprehended. 

 Very likely half of all you find will have finished 

 their course of destruction, among the combs, and 

 have voluntarily left them for a place to spin their 

 cocoons. They are worried by the bees, if they ara 



