1^>8 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



ground, a super placed on it, and the entrance closed with 

 wirecloth somewhat as a hive-entrance is closed for haul- 

 ing (Fig. Ti). Then over the super is thrown what 

 Root's "A B C of Bee-Culture" has been pleased to call 

 the Miller tent-escape (Fig. 73). (Later on FU tell how 

 it's made). \\'hen a second super is brought to the pile, 

 the escape is kicked off, the super placed on the pile and 

 the escape thrown over it. When the pile becomes ton 

 high to kick ofif the escape, it is shoved off with the 

 hand, Init still allowed to fall to the ground, and after- 

 ward picked up. 



The bees can now make their exit through the top 

 of the escape 2X their leisure, and from time to time those 

 that have gathered on the wirecloth below are allowed to 

 escape. Matters may be hurried up a little by blowing 

 in smoke below, ^^^hen there is abundance of time for 

 the bees to get out without being hurried, or if the pile is 

 onlv five or six high, it is better not to have any opening 

 at the bottom of the pile, but to set the first super on a 

 flat surface that admits no light. 



KEEPIX(^ TALLY OF SFCTIOXS. 



The number of the colony from which each super Is 

 taken is marked in pencil on one of the middle sections, 

 perhaps when the super is first taken from the hive, cer- 

 tainly before it is taken from the hive 'entirely. A board 

 or a slip of paper is kept where the supers are piled, and 

 as each super is taken to the pile the number of the hive 

 and the number of sections in the super is taken. Oc- 

 casionally the number of supers in the pile is counted, so 

 as to see whether it tallies with the number taken on the 

 memorandum, for without this there is danger that some 

 super might be forgotten, and the colony not have proper 

 credit. When convenient, possibly while we sit resting 

 a little while after the supers are all piled, possibly not 



