40 AN EASY METHOD 



CHAPTEE VI. 



ON EKMOVING HONEY. 



Insert a slide under the drawer so far as to cut off all 

 communication between the lower apartment and the drawer. 

 Insert another sh'de between the first slide and the drawer. 

 Now draw out the box containing the honey, with the slide 

 that is next to it. Set the drawer on its window end, 

 a little distance from the apiary, and remove the slide. Now 

 supply the place of the drawer, thus removed, with an empty 

 one, and draw the first-inserted slide. 



BEMABKS. 



Care must be exercised in performing this operation. The 

 apertures through the floor in the chamber must be kept 

 closed by the slides during the process, so as to keep the 

 bees from rushing up into the chamber when the box is drawn 

 out. The operator must likewise see that the entrances into 

 the drawer are kept covered with the slide, in such a manner 

 as to prevent the escape of any of the bees, unless he is will- 

 ing to be stung by them. If the bees are permitted to enter 

 the chamber in very warm weather, they will be likely to 

 hold the occupancy of it, and build comb there, which will 

 change the hive into one no better than an old-fashioned box. 

 This evil may be remedied, however, by placing slides ov^r 

 the apertures, and leaving the door open until the bees retire : 

 then the drawers may be entered. 



We have, succeeded best in expelling the bees from the 

 drawer by the following method, to wit : Shut the window- 



