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The bees should be approached with water and smoke 
the same as in the first instance. 
Should the old hive be covered with bees outside 
sprinkle on them about one pail of cold water, then 
wing them into a box or hive and turn it bottom side up 
•on the old stand after the hive is removed ; then giving 
them water and smoke there will be no danger of 
their stings. 
In this operation the hive can be removed to the place 
df transfer and turned bottom side up immediately; a box 
or hive should be placed alongside of it, or what would 
be still better a board or bench three or four feet in 
length. It should be of the exact height of the inverted 
hive. Then place upon it some kind of box or hive and 
let it project over the inverted hive about one inch to 
commence with. 
Then with a couple of sticks pound lightly upon the 
sides of the inverted hive ; the bees will then commence 
filling themselves with honey and in two or three minutes 
will take up their line of march for the decoy hive, then 
by slipping the hive back a few inches until it is 
back two or three feet, under which place a bit of 
stick one half inch in hight, this is the process when 
the bee-master desires to capture the Queen as she easily 
can be picked up while passing from the old to the de- 
«oy hive, (there is no danger of her using her sting,) 
The operator should take a spider or an old tin pan 
with a few handfulls of cobs or sticks and start a little 
smudge at the commencement, and should the bees at- 
tempt to fly out of the hive while being drummed hold 
the smoke near by, and blow a trifle over them which 
will have a tendency to hurry them into the decoy hive. 
