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la four or five days of bad weather, the 

 bees will feaft on the honey of the glaffes y 

 to prevent which, take them off. But they 

 muft not be put on again, on a favourable 

 change ; for they will take the reft of the 

 honey ; although, when done, they will re- 

 fill them. Therefore put on frefh glaffes, 

 with empty combs. 



The glaffes fhould be taken off as faft as 

 filled, and replaced by empty ones, or the 

 openings covered with tea-chefi lead. 



Two flips of double tin, each about half 

 an inch wider than the bottom of the largeft 

 glafs, are neceffary to take the glaffes off by. 

 Slide one under the glafs to be feparated, 

 and the other under the firfi; then with- 

 draw the upper tin, with the glafs there- 

 on, while the other is kept clofe and fteady 

 in its place, till an empty one is fet on. The 

 glafs taken off is 'to be conveyed to a dark- 

 ened room ; and turning it on its fide, to- 

 wards the light, the bees will fly directly 

 thereto, and foon quit the glafs. If they do 

 not, tapping on the fides with the hand, or 

 blowing with a pair of bellows, will make 

 them foon relinquifh it. Small glaffes are 

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