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attended to in the fall so that the bees may save their 
honey for the cold weather in the winter and be sure 
to attend to it in the spring for there arc many weak 
colonies lost by neglect at that season. 
SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING. 
The above cut represents a frame necessary for trans- 
ferring a part of the comb and honey with the bees. — 
This frame is attached to the bar that goes across the 
top of the section, it will be eight inches wide and elev- 
en inches long one-fourth ot an inch thick and one 
inch wide. The sharp corner of your bar may be taken 
off inside the frame. Drive a sprig through the bar in 
the ends of the sides of your frame, put a piece across 
the bottom and you have the frame you need. Fasten 
in the top of the section by driving in a one and one- 
fourth screw instead of the sprig as in the common sec- 
tion. Transferring should be done only in April, if the 
swarm is strong but later in the season if the colony be 
a weak one. 
Take up the hive to be transferred, and place it up- 
side down, some distance from its original position, 
place another box where it stood to catch the bees that 
are out; then have a box of the same size as the hive 
from which the bees are to be removed, and place it 
upon the top of the hive, mouth to mouth; tic a cloth 
around the two where they join to prevent any bees 
