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Changing bees from one hive to another easily effected in hives with bars after my
plan. Remove the hive from which they are to be taken, a little distance. Put a
new hive in its place on a sheet as in hiving a new swarm. Take out the combs one by one
allow the bees to fill themselves with honey, gently shake or brush them off on to the sheet. If their
queen is not taken from them they will readily ascend into the new hive. If some combs with
honey, eggs, and brood be put into the new hive, they will enter and stay without a queen. 
Or they may be removed by driving. [crossed out: and]
Changing of place. Caution, caution! Remove not so as to endanger. 
June 14, 1853 Single hive. Front, back and ends
inch, pieces on ends for
rabbets inch, unless doubled. 
Outside pieces as in other hives nailed so as to prevent raw edge and to give support
for cover. These hives may be put over the double protector, but little rain
will get in. No matter in summer, in winter may have a board laid so as to
form a roof and shed all rain. Middle strip higher so as to slant hives each way. 
a, a, need not come out quite so far as bottom board, and they will receive the board in winter to keep
straw in place. Corn cob alighting board. March 25, 1868. Instead of apron
board in front of hives use cobs. Cut them to length, hold them together
by thin slats with nails. 1, 1, might be tacked to edge of portico floor. 
In wet weather much better than a board. 28th Let two nails be
fastened in outside edge of portico floor, between which cobs to be confined, their lower edges
to rest on a board with strips nailed and to be confined between nails. Might they not easily be
held together with annealed wire? Unless mode of using them very simple, too much work. 