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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
make the banishment of the bees far from easy. It 
no honey-board has been used, the super must be 
cut from the hive by a thin wire, and then propped 
up from |in. to Jin., and the crack so closed that no 
bee escapes. Leaving it from thirty to forty minutes 
will enable the bees to clear up bleeding honey, 
and repair somewhat the broken edges of the cut 
cells. It may now be carried to a cool, shady 
spot, gently inverted, and covered at its mouth with 
a cloth. The jacket should remain on, or the light 
passing through the glass will confuse the bees in their 
efforts to find a way of escape. Every few minutes 
the cloth may be removed, the bees shaken from 
it, and as many permitted to fly as will do so. If 
robbers make their appearance, the cloth must be 
immediately restored to its place. If the super be 
so large and heavy that inversion may cause bleeding, 
or if it be not wholly sealed, it should be raised on blocks 
within a case, into which the bees will by degrees pass. 
If this case be provided with a trap, all trouble is at an 
end. The most simple, although not the safest, form 
is made of tubes of perforated zinc, Jin. wide — or 
rather less — by 4in. or 5in. long, and pointing to- 
wards the light, fixed into the side of the box, so as to 
be flush within. Tubes not perforated are more likely 
to be entered by robbers, as the odour at the end of 
the tube will direct them to the honey. With per- 
forated tubes the odour escapes against the box, and 
keeps the little thieves fidgeting at the wrong spot. 
Instead of tubes, my well-known five-pin trap may be 
used. Over a large opening in the box is placed a thin 
piece, slanting at about 45*^ to the horizon; in this are 
