108 On. Bees. 
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placed in a hive of the same construction and on the 
same bench, which we will designate as the second. We 
examined the first hive by gently raising the lid, and 
found it completely filled. We then proceeded, accord- 
ing to the directions of the Encyclopedia, to take off 
the upper box, which was done with very little injury 
to the bees. Had it been done at night, or early in the 
morning, or had tobacco smoke been previously ap- 
plied, scarcely a bee would have been killed. We car- 
ried away the upper box, and in the mean time threw a 
cloth over the hive, until having emptied the box, we 
replaced it in its original situation on the top of the hive. 
The bees immediately went to work to repair their 
cells, and clear away the honey which ran down the hive, | 
and proved fatal to a great number of them. The box 
taken out was three inches deep, was filled with white, 
transparent, delicious honey, not a cell discoloured, and 
entirely free from young bees, or bee-bread. In the 
next box below, most of the cells were filled with 
young bees in the chrysalis state; while the third and 
lowest box was principally filled with wax, containing 
few bees and but little honey. When we left the country, 
which was about the last of October, the bees had agam 
nearly filled the upper box. 
A month after the swarming of the first hive, the 15th 
of July, we examined the second, and found it filled 
from top to bottom, we took off the upper box in the 
prescribed mode, which by being done at night, freed 
us from all trouble, only six or seven of the bees being 
destroyed. We were satisfied with finding it filled with 
honey of equal freshness, purity and whiteness. 
