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bees well before attempting it, and move gently, because bees are much 

 more vicious when there is no honey in the fields. Keep boxes on and 

 continue to extract according to the honey supply. 



If small boxes are used in large frames they may be removed or ex- 

 changed with ease, just as the regular frames, by smoking the bees and 

 then brushing them off with a green twig. When boxes are to be re- 

 moved too much smoke will cause them to eat the caps from the honey. 

 If section boxes, or any with more than one comb is used, it is often dif- 

 ficult to rid the boxes of bees when they are removed, and there is dang- 

 er of losing the young bees by the method recommended, viz., putting 

 into a box or barrel, and covering it with a sheet, which is turned over 

 frequently as the escaping bees cluster upon it. A successful method 

 is to have each hive numbered and as boxes are removed number them 

 accordingly. Upon this place a corresponding box, with holes open 

 between them, and lay them with the empty box uppermost in the 

 honey house. The young bees will ascend into it. It is then closed and 

 placed upon the hive from which the box is taken . This, however, is 

 troublesome, The best way to remove them when honey is abundant 

 and bees are gathering it rapidly, is to take off the boxes and set them 

 by the hives in the evening. In the morning early the bees will 

 be out, and they should then be removed. 



Boxes should be watched for a few weeks after they are taken off. If 

 the weather is warm and worms begin to hatch, they should be smoked 

 with sulphur. It is most successfully used by heating a large piece of 

 iron. Put it in an iron vessel and pour the flour of sulphur upon it- 

 In this way there is no danger from fire. (See under " Honey Boxes.") 



In sections where darker honey is gathered the last of this month, the 

 nice white basswood, or clover honey comb should be promptly re-, 

 moved before it is soiled, or the white honey extracted before it is injur- 



