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practice of transportation) and you may make almost 

 any swarm rich enough to live through the following 

 winter.' This second harvest may be very efficiently 

 supplied by an attention to feeding. 



" I ought here to state, upon the authority of Mr. 

 Dunbar, that if the weather prove wet and unfavora- 

 ble, as it did in the autumns of 1829 and 1836, the 

 transported hives are sometimes found to diminish in 

 weight during their sojourn on the moors. 



" In Scotland, prior to the bees being sent to col 

 lect their second harvest, recourse is had to the prac- 

 tice of drumming, or driving, and the bees being 

 thereby expelled from their stores, and secured in a 

 new habitation, are sent on the morrow to their sta- 

 tion on the moors, sometimes to a distance of fifteen 

 or twenty miles. There they remain for a month or 

 six weeks; a shilling a hive being the usual compen- 

 sation to the shepherd who superintends them. 



" For the above information, I am indebted to Sir 

 J. G. Dalyell, of Edinburgh, the translator of Hu- 

 ber." Sevan. 



The foregoing account possesses much interest to 

 bee-keepers in this country, showing as it does the 

 practices of those of other countries. 



The great diversity of soil and climate found within 

 short distances on the Pacific slope, furnishes induce- 

 ments ; and abundance and ease of communication 

 by both land and water, afford facilities for the safe 

 and speedy transportation of bees to sources of fresh 

 and luxuriant pasturage, whenever a location becomes 



