60 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
in place, using only the truest, evenest combs, and dis 
carding all drone cells and combs of much greater thick 
ness than one inch. 
Old black combs that are true and even, are just as 
good as new, white ones. Having thus fitted the comb 
to the frame, tack on each side a strip of wood, previ- 
ously prepared, of about } by 3 of an inch material, and 
long enough to reach from the bottom to the top of the 
frame, to hold the comb in its place for three or four days, 
or until the bees shall permanently attach it to the frame. 
If a little melted bees wax is at hand, the combs may be 
partially attached with this by means of a feather, but 
except during the midst of the honey harvest, the fumes 
from burning wax or combs should:be avoided on account 
of greater liability to entice robbers. 
When thus prepared, the frame, with its comb and 
brood, is carefully placed in the hive, and its entrance 
closed up to keep out inquisitive stranger bees. Thus, 
one by one, are the combs removed, without honey, ex- 
cept what little there may be near the corners of the 
frames, the surplus being immediately taken to the house 
out of the reach of the bees. Having thus placed all the 
combs in position in the new hive, the small box is 
brought from the old stand, and the bees it contains shook 
out at the entrance of theic new domicil, having first re- 
moved the slide, so as to give them room to enter. <A 
little smoke may be needed before removing it, as the 
bees in it have probably already begun the work of queen 
rearing, and may be loth to leave the comb furnished them, 
which should now be removed. If we intend to practice 
artifinal swarming, and prevent our bees from absconding 
to the woods, we have now to find the queen. This is 
easily accomplished after having been once done, and 
