Note 26 — Chapter V · BEE MANIPULATION.
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Bees are apt to take the interference more quietly if the stock is moved a little distance from its accustomed Stand; in such case, put an empty hive in its place, to amuse returning bees. These can be shaken out when the hive it is desired they should inhabit is restored. If this is kept in a closed bee-house the entrance should be shut down until the hive is replaced, when the clustered bees may be at once admitted.