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should be intolerable to the bees. Having the top 

 unscrewed would probably answer the purpose, as 

 it could then be easily pushed on one side. DR. 

 EVANS, when he could not readily dislodge the 

 bees from the box, had recourse to DR. WARDER'S 

 plan of placing it over an inverted empty box, 

 that contained a lighted sulphur match, the fumes 

 of which stupified the bees"; and on the upper 

 hive being rapped, they fell down in a state of 

 insensibility, but soon revived and joined the 

 family, by the usual entrance. The fumes of 

 sulphur answered as well as those of the narcotic 

 fungus recommended by Thorley and Keys, 

 which it is sometimes difficult to procure and 

 troublesome to prepare. Immersing the bees in 

 cold water would answer, with a glass or earthen- 

 ware hive. Dr. EVANS was led to adopt it in con- 

 sequence of reading Wildman's account of Madame 

 Vicat's method of clearing her bees from vermin, 

 by plunging them in water. The chapter on Bee- 

 maladies contains some remarks on this subject. 



At the commencement of my apiarian inquiries, 

 I felt that there was a want of more minute infor- 

 mation than is given by Keys ; and others with 

 whom I have conversed upon the subject, have had 

 the same feeling : this has induced me to enter into a 

 descriptive detail of the whole business of super- 

 hiving, nadir-hiving, and deprivation. Those who 



