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sitory, and exposed to the effects of the sun, with somo 

 caution however, lest the sun be too intense, and melt 

 the combs : care should be taken to secure this hive, 

 also, from the pillaging Bees, by removing it at some 

 distance from the Apiary, in some retired spot. The 

 eggs left in the cells will come forward, and thus re- 

 people the hive, and if no queen appears amongst 

 them, the earliest opportunity must be taken of ex- 

 tracting a queen, with some drones, from another hive, 

 (as has before been noticed,) and thus effecting the 

 formation of this new colony, Mr. Huish thus adds, 

 " I never, however, knew that a hive thus regenerat- 

 ed, swarmed the same year, although Mr. Ducouedic 

 affirms it, especially if the Apiary be in the vicinity 

 of heath, or buck-wheat. Neither is it to be desired 

 from so weak a stock ; it is fit only for to be preserv- 

 ed over for the next season/' 



CHAP. XXII. 



On the custom of transporting hives of Bees from 

 place to place, for a change of pasturage, fyc. 



In many countries, this is considered as a very im- 

 portant point in the practical management of Bees. 

 Savery, in his letters on E^ypt, enters into a long de- 

 tail of the manner in which the Egyptians transport 

 their hives along the banks of the Nile, for the pur- 

 poses of fresh pasturage, and concludes thus," This 

 species of industry, procures to the Egyptians, an 

 abundance of wax and honey, and enables them to 

 export a considerable quantity to foreign countries." 

 This practice is alike common to the Chinese, Ita- 

 lians. French, Germans, &c. Mr. Boman, in his dic- 

 tionary, observes, " Great are the advantages of be- 

 ing in the vicinity of some navigable river ; by these 

 means the spring of a dry country, can be united 

 with the autumn of a fertile, umbrageous one, and 

 thereby ample amends be made for the poverty of 

 *he country in which the Apiarian may be established,' 1 



