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Inverting A Stock Rather Formidable At First

Categories: SWARMING.
Bee Keeping: Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained

To a person that has never inverted a hive full of bees, even to

overflowing, or never has seen it done, it appears like a great

undertaking, as well as the probability of ruining the stock! But after

the first trial, the magnitude of the performance is greatly

diminished, and will grow less with every repetition of the feat, until

there is not the least dread attending it. Without tobacco smoke I

hardly think it practicable, but with it, there is not the least

difficulty. It would be very unsatisfactory to turn over a hive and

nothing to drive the bees away from the very places on the combs that

you wish particularly to inspect. The smoke is just the thing to do it!

As for the bad effects of such overturning and smoking, I never

discovered any.



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