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Show TRANSFERRING BEE8. Easily Done by Inverting Hive and Driving Up Into Empty Box. Thoro aro at least thrco ways of transferring bees from box hives. Tho i old method Is to pry open tho old ' hives with cold chisel nnd hammer, cut out tho combs and fit them Into J tho movnblo frames, fastening them In , with sticks nnd strings. After trying I this method on several colonies, 1 , must pronounce It n messy, sticky Job. A much better way Is to drive Uhmh out by tho following- plan. Take the liivo to ho transferred under a tree . or In tho shndo. of a building and turn j it bottom up? I'laco on top of It nn . empty box of tho samo bIzo, blow In a little sinoko at the bottom occasionally occasional-ly and drum on tho old hlvo with n couplo of sticks for 10 or 15 minutes. Nearly nil bees and queen will go up Into tho empty box. In tho meuutlmu pluco tho hlvo In which you wish to put tho hoes on the stand where tho old hlvo stood so tho fluid bees Hint will bo coming In all tho time havo n placq to go. They will bo rushing In and nut again, not knowing know-ing what to make of It. Then enrry tho box of bees and dump them In front of tho now hlvo and they will soon run In and innko themselves at" homo. , Stand tho old hlvo In a new location and drum on It again In 21 days, having hav-ing nn empty box aliovo It ns at first. Put theso young bees In a new hlvo or add them to tho old colony ub you prefer. If ono desires two colonies from tho one, It Is better to let tho old box hlvo cast a swarm first, then drum In 21 days and the one drumming drum-ming will bo nil that is necessary. Still another wny which is better and less work than either of tho nbovo methods, If ono wishes to keep tho whole forco together and get tho most money from them, snys Farm nnd Home, Is to tnko a movnblo framo hlvo full of empty combs, n week or two before swarming time. Plnco It under a box hlvo, closing tho entrance of tho top hlvo nnd compel tho bees to go through tho now ones. When honey begins to como In fnst, tho bees will crowd tho queen into tho lower hive, always storing their honey nbovo tho brood When tho queen Is laying nicely In tho under hlvo, put a queen excluder between tho two hives, and soon all tho brood will bo hatched out above nnd tho combs will bo filled with honey, it can then bo taken off nnd tho combs cut out, tho honoy extracted extract-ed and tho old combs rendered Into wax. I find this tho most satisfactory satisfac-tory wny of Hll, getting more honoy nnd wax nnd keeping down increase. |