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bees oul oftlir old hive. The bees will ;sll return and 
enter the new hive. Put on a veil and a pair ol wooi 
len gloves to prevent stings: their hostility will soon 
cease, for they will yield to their master's wishes in 2 
01 3 minutes after he commences taking away their 
comb and the veil and mittens may bo dispensed w lb. 
Hut there is another method which I very much like 
in transferring bees from one Vermont hivo to another 
of the same kind. — it is this : 
This operation should never be effected by compul- 
sion. 
First Method. — Insert drawer No. 1 into t lie 
Chamber of the hive to be transferred, as early as the 
first of May. If the beos fill the d rawer, they will 
recede from the lower apartment and winter in the 
drawer. As early in the spring ns the bees carrv in 
bread plentifully on t hoi r logs, remove the drawer, 
which will contain the principal part of the bees, to 
un empty hive. Now remove the old hive a few feet 
in front, and place the new ono containing the drasv- 
cr where the old one stood. Now turn the old hivo 
bottom up. If there are any bees left in the old hive, 
j they will soon return and take possession of their 
new habitation. 
Second Method* — Take drawer No. 1, well 
filled by any hive the same season — insert the 
same into the chamber of the hive to be transfer- 
red, in September, (August would be better). If 
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