134 DEPRIVATION, 



ducing honey ; otherwife the flock muft be 

 raifed on a nadir. Place the hive taken, a 

 considerable diftance from the flock ; and 

 if in two or three hours the bees remain 

 quiet, there is a prefumption of its having a 

 queen, or brood, and it muft be fet on again* 

 But when all the three hives appear crowd- 

 ed with bees, fo as to want more room, fet 

 the hive that was taken, with its door as near 

 as can be to the flock door, fo as not to ob- 

 ftrucl: it ; laying a flip of wood as a bridge 

 from one to the other : and place an empty 

 triplet on the flock. The hive being placed 

 thus near-to the flock, with its floor touch- 

 ing, will be efleemed flill as one family, and 

 the brood reared as fuch ; and in about three 

 weeks may be taken away. The brood in 

 that time will be matured, and the cells filled 

 with honey. 



But in the interim, if an unufual crowd 

 or difturbance, or crumbs of wax, are feen 

 at the door, it is a token that the flock bees, 

 or fome others, have begun to pillage. Ob- 

 ferving this, take it dire&ly to a dark room ? 

 and cover it up for a few hours: if then the 

 bees are quietly eicaping, ht it remain till 



morning. 



