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is as well to remove them at once, and substitute 

 others with a guide-comb, and if you get another har- 

 vest, very well ; if not, no harm is done. 



The honey, if left in boxes, should be covered with 

 paper, or cloths, perfectly tight, in order to keep out in- 

 sects. If the boxes be intended for market, bottoms 

 should be made for them, and laid aside, and put on 

 when the supers are withdrawn from the chambers, after 

 driving out the bees. 



HOW TO DRIVE BEES FROM THE BOXES, ETC. 



You would, perhaps, like to know how to get the bees 

 out of the boxes with the least trouble. In order to dis- 

 turb the family as little as possible, carry your boxes to 

 any dark place, where the bees can find their way out, 

 by a little light being admitted near them, and in the 

 course of the day the most of the bees will have depart- 

 ed, and returned home. Care must be taken not to 

 leave the boxes where other bees will scent them out, 

 and be attracted to them; unless you wish to divide 

 pretty freely with them. You can, if you please, drive 

 out the bees at once, with a rod which should be applied 

 pretty freely to the sides of the boxes, with the open bot- 

 toms upwards. This way requires a person to be well 

 protected by a bee-dress ; but it makes the bees more 

 irritable than the other method. In taking out the 

 boxes, the greatest care should be observed to not crush 

 many bees, as this arouses their anger to its greatest 

 height. 



