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CHAPTER XXIII 



TRANSPORTATION. 



" THIS is a practice which many apiarians have re 

 course to, for the purpose of removing their bees to 

 fresh pasture, to districts where buckwheat is culti- 

 vated, or to the neighborhood of heaths, or to any 

 other place where such late-blossoming flowers as 

 afford honey abound. 



" Mr. Isaac assures us that he once had a poor swarm 

 of a month's standing, which only weighed five pounds, 

 four ounces, and that on the thirtieth of July, he had 

 it removed to Dartmoor Heath, from whence it was 

 brought home, two months afterwards, increased in 

 weight twenty-four pounds and a half. He more- 

 over states that the increase of others that were sent 

 there was nearly proportional, and he is of opinion 

 that the whole addition was made during the month 

 of August. 



" In Lower Egypt, where the flower harvest is not so 

 early by several weeks as in the upper districts of 

 that country, this practice of transportation is car- 

 ried on to a considerable extent. About the end of 

 October, the hives, after being collected together 



