MANAGING BEES. 



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First Method. Insert drawer No. I into 

 the chamber of the hive, to be transferred as 

 early as the first of May. If the bees fill the 

 drawer, they will recede from the lower apart- 

 ment and winter in the drawer. As early in 

 the spring as the bees carry in bread plentifully 

 on their legs, remove the drawer, which will 

 contain the principal part of the bees, to an emp- 

 ty hive. IN'ow remove the old hive a few feet 

 in front, and place the new one containing the 

 drawer where the old one stood. Now turn 

 the old hive bottom up. If there are any bees 

 left in the old hive, they will soon return and 

 take possession of their new habitation. 



Second Method. Take drawer No. 1, 

 well filled by any hive the same season, insert 

 the same into the chamber of the hive, to be 

 transferred in September, (August would be 

 better.) If the bees need transferring, they 

 will repair to the drawer and make the same 

 iheir winter quarters. 1 hen proceed in the 

 spring as directed in the first method. 



R K M A R K s. 

 This management should excite a deep in- 

 terest in every cultivator, both in a temporal ji'ted 

 moral point of view. Temporal, because t^ie 

 lives of all the bees are preserved ; moral, be- 



