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juice when the pie is in the oven, would evident oo 
et it from ' boiling over; whereas, ifit do so only when th 
ecessary: th never t 
n as they are taken up from the ground. Used 
the Probie would be obtained by being a “ip 
and to sree them better and quicker than they otherwise 
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Thad a brick pit mad e, and having ‘rcigud 2 Sheps or 
‘of spring, I released them from their prison ™ and put 
them on their former berths again. The perforated zinc 
tes whic 
changed the bottom boards for clean ones, and found the 
old ones covered with mouldy dead bees, and other offensive 
matter, On being weighed, the skeps were found to have 
utt’s box ot some excellent honey. The reasoning 
or rationale of this is self-evident to epg —— “oe so 
. not usually eat when they sleep : eng 
ept under the influence of the Poppy God f ves as 
till April, have, on waking, abundant stock of food to in- 
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the garden. 1 now feel assured that all things mb en _ 
in this veep be achieved for their success are done for t 
The two shutters at eitherend, A and B, open b 
right and left, and are secured by the central a on °C, 
which falls down, and which has a hasp or padiock at top 
o lock it up. Thus the whole can be in nspected and closed 
gain in the easiest method, without noise or disturbance. 
rash ngrbasi wit! ith chopped Laurel leaves, and then, ai 
night, pla wa the hive over asin. very bee was 
dead before 
a it 
under a lool with a wasp or fly, and in two minutes 
nslow. 
Bee. s.—Encon raged by the kindness with which you 
tion, I ventur re to lay my case before you, eh ay my 
them in the autumn, and being told that i 
boxes always died from cold, I wrap them up in ae 
mats, an in Decem ey were as strong and as 
if it had been June. According to Nutt, ah ste oe 
mouth of the hive, when the frosts began, with a perforated 
the foot-board, feeding them ae time until 
April with honey, in a feeding-pan placed at the top 
the hive. They soon recovered, and were so eat, that 
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but as I take pleasure in my bees, I did not care for that, 
particularly as I hoped to reap some little return du uring 
coming summer; but, alas! my hopes were vain. 
ay M., what ‘was my dismay ne ray Mm 
wer to my anxious inquiries, I found that a swarm had 
been seen in the air about 8 a.M.; but I never heard more 
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