smoke gets between the combs quickly and the beekeeper standing opposite 

 the entrance can watch tlie progress more easily. 



After the bees have been drummed out and the new hive set on the 

 stand where the barrel formerly stood, the best combs in the barrel can be 

 used in frames, as in the case of the " Direct Method," providing the 

 beekeeper is certain no American foulbrood exists. If the combs in the 

 barrel are not more than a year old, greater care has to be taken, because 

 newly built combs crush very easily in warm weather, especially if heavy 

 with honey. In drumming bees from boxes or barrels in which there 

 are recently built combs, it is well to separate each comb from its neighbor 

 with one or two wads of paper, so that the combs will not fall together. 

 This also insures room for the bees to pass up into the hive freely. 



Traxsfeering from Buildings/ Bee Trees, etc. 



Sometimes a colony of bees will hive itself in a cavity in a building 

 or in the cavity of a tree, which for some reason cannot be cut open. 

 Whenever a swarm occupies a place where none of the preceding methods 

 can be used, we must proceed in a different manner. The combs and a 

 few of the bees must be sacrificed, but the honey and almost all of the 

 bees can be saved by using the following method: 



At the commencement of the main honey-flow early in June, build a 

 platform large enough to hold a hive of bees and strong enough to hold 

 a large surplus of honey, if honey should be found. Make a nucleus, a 

 two-to-four frame colony, with queen. In making the nucleus the bee- 

 keeper will have good success if he proceeds as follows : 



Take from two to four frames of sealed emerging brood, without bees, 

 and introduce a queen, or ripe queen cell, screen the entrance of the hive 

 and place the nucleus in a dark place for a day or two. This allows a 

 great many young bees to emerge from the cells and these young bees are 

 not inclined to fight strange bees nor will they leave their new location 

 when placed on the new stand. ^^Tien the nucleus is ready to be placed 

 on the platform, fill the empty space in the hive with frames of founda- 

 tion. Wliile the bees are in the cellar set up the platform so that the 

 entrance of the nucleus hive will be very near the fiight-hole of the bees 

 in the cavity from which they are to be removed. Cover the flight-hole 

 with a board having a hole in the centre large enough to insert a double 

 Porter bee-escape. Place this board so that .the bees can leave and enter 

 the cavity only through the small central hole and leave this hole open 

 for a day or two before fastening in the bee-escape so that the bees will 

 become used to the changed condition. Search out all other flight-holes 

 and close them. To he successful with this method, all other exits must 

 he closed. After a day or two place the double Porter-escape in the hole, 

 so that the bees can leave the cavity but cannot return to it. In a short 

 time these bees will unite with those in the nucleus and become a strong 



