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over it to keep the bees confined, and also to afford them ventilation. 
A wagon or carriage with springs is much better than a sleigh or sled 
to carry them in, as the combs are less liable to jar down, though, in 
cold weather, if there be a good quantity of straw or hay spread under 
them, and care taken, they may be carried without danger in a 
sleigh. The bees should first be made secure in the hives, and at the 
same time sufficiently ventilated to prevent them from smothering. 
The hives should never be moved from their location during the sea- 
son, after they commence their labors in the spring, for in so doing it 
disturbs the bees very much, and many will not be able to find the 
hive, if removed to a new place, but will linger around their old loca- 
tion, and finally perish. 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
BEES IN LARGE TOWNS OR CITIES. 
Bers may be kept in most of our large towns, and even in cities, 
with very good success; much, however, depends upon the surround- 
ing country, as bees usually traverse a circumference of two miles, in 
search of stores. Fruit-trees, shrubs, and flowers afford a good amount 
of pasturage in villages, and cities especially, where the honey locust 
has been introduced as a shade tree. In many villages in Ohio it affords 
a rich pasture for some two weeks, and it comes at a season when it 
is most beneficial to the bees, viz.: between the blossoming of fruit- 
trees and the season of white-clover. 
One, and the main objection to keeping bees in cities, is the trouble 
and difficulty attendant on swarming; many persons would gladly keep 
one family of bees, just for amusement, and to obtain honey for their 
own family use, if swarming could be dispensed with. My hives 
remedy this difficulty, and not only this, it is better adapted to these 
locations, as it may be set in buildings, entirely out of the way, and 
the honey taken without the least exposure to the bees, or disturbance 
to them. I have sold over fifty of these hives, during the last four 
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