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well drummed, which is sometimes the case, when there 
is a large quantity of young brood present and abun- 
dant stores in the field, they must be fumigated occasion- 
ally during the transfer to keep them quiet, and care 
must be taken to wing them off each piece of comb as it 
is taken. out, and not get them soiled with honey. If 
beese are transferred cither befor or after the honey sea- 
son, they must be watched a few days to see that other 
colonies do not get to robbing them. If it is done at the 
commencement, or during the honey season, no more honey 
need be put in the frames than is necessary to fill them, 
and save the young brood. When most of the young brood 
can be put in two, or three, or four frames, the remain- 
der of the hive can be filled up with ' empty frames ; 
placing three separators between them the same as in a 
new hive. This will just give room for one box to shut 
tight over the other frames. In this case the new frames 
must all be put by themselves, on one side of the hive. 
Should the swarm be a large one (one peck of bees or 
over) it will be best to place a box on the side where 
the old combs are put ; this will give them more room 
and it may be well to put some blocks between the sup- 
porters and the top of the outer part of the hive raising 
the inner part some four or five inches, until the bees 
can get a little regulated, then let it down. The sep- 
arators may be left out for a couple of days and turn the 
box over them bottom side up, and then introduce sepa- 
rators for a week or ten days, or until the bees nearly 
fill the frames with comb, 
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A NEW MODE OF TRANSFERRING BEES. 
Which I have adopted the past season I find is full 
better and quicker done, especially in coolish weather, 
than the old process just described. 
