200 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



somewhat as a hive-entrance is closed for hauling (Fig-. 72). 

 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 I'll tell you how it's made.) When 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 too high to kick off the escape, it is shoved off 

 with the hand, but still allowed to fall to the ground, and 

 afterwards picked up. 



Fig. 66 — Colony at left treated for sioarming. 



The bees can now make their exit through the top of the 

 escape at their leisure, and from time to time those that have 

 gathered on the wire cloth below are allowed to escape. Mat- 

 ters may be huixied up a little by blowing in smoke below. But 

 this is hardly advisable, for the smoke, being more or less con- 

 tined, is likely to give an unpleasant flavor to the sections. 

 '\^^len there is abundance of time for the bees to get out with- 

 out being hurried, or if the pile is only 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, or 

 right on the grass. 



