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and allow the bees to work downwards on the combs or 

 foundation placed for them. Towards the end of the 

 season the stock will have its brood located in the frames, 

 while honey will probably occupy the whole of the upper 

 combs. This can then be removed, but the stock must 

 not be allowed to starve, as it is quite likely very little 

 store will be in the brood combs. 



The other method is that of placing the skep or other 

 fixed comb-hive in an inverted position immediately under 

 the frame-hive, allowing communication through an open- 

 ing in an improvised floor. In this case the inverted combs 

 will be gradually emptied of everything. The stock will 

 then take up its abode in the frames, and also work in 

 supers above. These empty combs can then be transferred 

 at leisure. 



Uniting two Stocks or Swarms 



when furnishing the bar-frame hive will always prove 

 the more satisfactory process in the end ; and this fact 

 should never be lost sight of. 



