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Bee-Keeping Simplified for the 



np into tke roof. The hive is completed by putting on the lift 

 and roof. 



The swarm should be hived into the movable comb hive by 

 running the bees in at the entrance. To accomplish this, place a 



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Fio. 24. 



board the same width as the alighting board, and from two to 

 three feet long, sloping from it to the ground ; prop up the 

 brood chamber at the front with wedges to give an entrance I5 

 inches deep. Take the skep qr box in which the bees have been 

 placed temporarily, or in which they have travelled after 

 purchase (if the latter, the enclosing material of cheese- 

 straining cloth or perforated zinc lid must be removed), hold it 



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Fig. 26. 



b€ tween the hands, muuth downwards, about a foot away 

 from the entrance, ajid with vigorous downward jerks shake 

 the bees out on to the cloth. Their natural inclination of 

 creeping uphill asserts itself, and they travel into the new 

 home very quickly, Fig, 21. It is advisable to watch and see that 

 the queen enters safely. At night the brood chamber is lowered 

 to its normal position. A bottle of white cane sugar 

 syrup must be given over the feedhole in the calico 



