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empty one of the same diameter is placed immediately over 
it, with a cloth around the céntre where the two join, in order 
to prevent the bees from molesting the operator. The sides 
of the lower hive are then gently beaten with sticks in or- 
der to make the bees ascend to the upper one, which event 
may be ascertained by a loud humming noise, and soon the 
whole community will have gone into the new hive, and 
then may be removed to the apiary. Besides this method 
there are two others used to drive the bees from one hive 
into another, viz., by filling the hive with smoke or water. 
In the latter case there is little danger of killing the bees, 
for they are very hard to die by drowning; and often, after 
being in the water a whole hour, and taken out apparently 
dead, they will soon revive if they are placed upon a warm, 
dry sheet. By this latter process it may be more easily as- 
certained what is the number of the bees, and the condition 
of the queen, etc. If bees from several hives have been 
partially drowned and afterward resuscitated, they may all 
be put into one hive, and they will live peaceably together, 
provided only that there is one queen left with them—a new 
hydropathic remedy that might be employed with advant- 
age, perhaps, in cases of domestic or national discords; so 
that, instead of granting divorces, or violently separating 
States, we would recommend this easy methed of making 
hostile parties live peaceably together. 
If either of these methods of depriving the bees of their 
wax and honey should be adopted, it may be done in the 
month of June, soon after the first swarm has left the hive, 
or it may be done in the month of October. The depriva- 
tion in the beginning of summer has this advantage, that 
you can take all the honey and wax from them, because the 
bees will have time enough during the summer and fall to 
store up food sufficient for their winter use, provided that 
the country affords good pasture for them. It has other 
advantages also, and important ones too. In the first place, 
