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hive; set the frames back into the old hive: place a queen-excluding honey 
board on the new hive; set the old hive on the honey board, replace the 
cover, and the job is finished; the bees will store honey in the combs in the 
old hive (or super, as it now is). The honey may be extracted as stored, or 
left for twenty-one days, when all the brood will have hatched. 
After the brood has all hatched and the honey has been extracted, the 
comb should be returned to the hive just at nightfall, and removed early the 
next morning. The bees will have licked them clean, and but very little fresh 
honey will have been stored in them. The combs may now be transferred to 
the desired frame. Perhaps some will say, I would rather shake the bees off 
the frame to be transferred, cut out the comb, and fasten it in the frames I 
want it to occupy. Stop a moment and think what a lot of brood you kill by 
cutting out the comb while the brood is in it, and also think what sticky work 
it is with all the honey in the comb; whereas when the combs are free from 
honey and brood it is clean and pleasant work. I feel sure that all who once 
try the above method will never go back to the old ways of transferring. 
[The above was written for Garden and Field by Mr. G. Colbourne, junr., 
editor of the Australian Beekeepers’ Review. No doubt the method of trans- 
ferring bees here described is known to many beekeepers of Queensland, but, 
as they rarely give amateurs the benefit of their knowledge through the Press, 
we print the article for the benefit of the latter.—Ed. Queensland Agricultural 
Journal. | 
GATE FASTENING. 
Wandering cows and horses become very knowing in the matter of opening 
gates, and we are often appealed to to give an idea for a perfect gate-fastener. 
Amongst those which we have described there are several good ones, but the 
fastener here illustrated appears to be about as good a one as can be tried. The 
illustration and description are taken from Garden and Field :—My. A. G. 
Hill, of Coleraine, Victoria, has sent us the above sketch of an- effective and 
simple device for preventing horses from opening gate clips. The idea is to 
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have a slot to run the clip bolt in, so that the clip must be raised (as shown by 
dotted outline) before it can be carried over the post to release the gate. The 
clip is made of hoop or other iron in the ordinary way, but, instead of merely 
having a single hole to carry the bolt, two are made, say, 3 inches apart, and the 
wood between is morticed out to make the slot. When the gate is shut and 
the clip put over, it drops and cannot be lifted until the bolt is raised in the 
slot. * 
