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KIJEP THIv STRAY BUES IN THU HONEY HOUSE. 



With almost any system of management a few bees will be carried 

 into the honey-house when extracting honey, and, with some methods, 

 a good many will be carried in, and the most of us try to get these bees 

 out again just as soon as we can; in fact, our honey-houses are rigged 

 up with bee-escapes at the windows to allow the bees to pass out as fast 

 as brought in. If the extracting is done during a honey-flow, this 

 practice is not objectionable, but during a dearth of honey, the turning 

 loose of these bees loaded with honey raises the very Dickens ; so long 

 as no bee carries home a load of honey all is quiet, but the coming home 

 of a loaded bee at a time when bees will rob, no matter whether that load 

 was stolen, or whether it was acquired during the excitement of carrying 

 a super to the honey-house, will start out hundreds of robbers in hot 

 haste. Keep these loaded bees in the honey-house, let them cluster and 

 cling to the window casing until the work is done at that yard, then give 

 them to weak colonies. These bees are loaded with honey and could 

 hang there for days without starving. Some of them may return to 

 their original home, but no great harm will be done, as the work of 

 opening hives is over. 



