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CHAPTBE XIII. 



ON TEAN8FEEE1NG SWAEMS. 



This operation should never be eifected by compulsion. 



Jfirst Method. — Insert drawer No. 1 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 

 apartment 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 empty hive. Now 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 their winter-quarters. Then 

 proceed in the spring as directed in the first method. 



R£H ABKS. 



This management should excite a deep interest in every 



cultivator, both in a temporal and moral point of view : 



temporal, because the lives of all the bees are preserved ; — 



moral, because we are accountable to God for all our acts. 



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