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ed them to do, without any confusion to them, or in- 
terfering with the natural habits of the bees. If the 
bees appear confused you have only to replace them 
and there is no harm done. You may try it over in a 
few days. If you are satisfied the divide is all right-, 
in forty-eight hours after they have been divided, take 
two empty sections without lids, raise the two full sec- 
tions, place the empty ones beneath and place your roof 
over them and the work is done for the season. Drive 
the screws in the lid, before you add your empty sec- 
tions. . 
The roof adapted to the McDonald Hive is made by 
planting one row of posts five feet high and nine feet 
apart. Saw a notch, eighteen inches from the toj) of 
the posts and let in a piece of three inch scantling, four 
feet long, in the form of a cross This will bear up 
your roof. Make it in sections so you can move it when 
you work with your bees. 
With the McDonald Hive you may put two colonies 
together with safety. In the fall you may have some 
weak colonies that will not winter, you can add them to 
a stronger, and thus save them over for the next season’s 
operation. To do this draw the screws from the lid of 
the weak colony, remove the lid, take one table spoonful 
of alcohol, four of honey or sugar, (add a little water 
if you use sugar) mix iu a tumbler with a spoon, pour it 
on the top of the bars and it will run dowu over the 
comb and bees. Now place the strong colony on top. 
The bees from the top liive will go down to lick up the 
honey and the two colonies will thus become mixed. — 
The scent of the alcohol will scent the bees aud combs 
and they will merge and go together the same as if they 
had worked together all summer You will then have 
a strong colony ready to divide the next season. 
If a colony die during the winter you have only to 
remove the lid, add a section with bees in it, aud you 
save the comb over the next season. This is carrying 
overall the work the bees do without unnecessary loss. 
All this you can do if you adopt the McDonald Im- 
proved Bee Hive. You will see the greater necessity 
