REINFORCING 
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a little up by any thing: cover them 
v?it!s a cloth and they will ascend. 
Another method of re-infotcing: 
Fill some empty combs with so 
gated ale, place ihem on a bivs 
"floor, beneath an empty hive; (f u * 
some hay or herbs on the combs, 
to prevent the bees damaging them¬ 
selves), place this in the midst of 
your apiary in the morning: a greet 
number of lees .will go in to feast 
on it; stop the door npon them 1 . 11 
night, and the hees will ascend to 
the top of the hive; then take 
and place them inverted under 
ycur weak hive which you wish 
