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inch margin into the inside of the tent and sew there 

 with heavy thread. 



Another way is a little easier to do, and it is a little 

 better, although a little harder to describe. Take a 

 piece of wire-cloth 22x9^4 inches. Mark a point at the 

 middle of one of the longer sides, and on the other side 

 mark a point 5J^ inches from each end, as shown in the 

 figure. Make a fold at each of the dotted lines. The 

 wire-cloth may be cut away at the two outside dotted 



lines, or, what is better, the end pieces may be folded 

 over and sewed down. Now bring the two parts of the 

 upper margin together and sew with wire, and then pro- 

 ceed to fasten the tent in place as before. In this latter 

 case, of course, a hole must be cut at the top of the tent. 

 When one of these tent-escapes is placed on a pile 

 of supers, or on a hive containing bees, the bees will pass 

 out freely at the top, but the bees that try to get in at- 

 tempt to make the entrance farther down. Once in a 

 great while there will gather a bunch of the outgoing 

 bees at the top so as to clOg the exit, and then the robbers 

 will settle on this bunch of bees and work their way in, 

 but ^ little stngke will scatter the bunch of bees. 



