DEPRIVATION. 1§J 



by placing flips of wood, half an inch in 

 thicknefs, between, to give fufEcient fpace 

 for the young to be excluded, and for the 

 paffage of the bees to nourifh. them. At 

 night fet thetn over the flock they came 

 from, or fome other that needs recruit- 

 ing. 



Deprivation fhould always be done in the 

 evening, as foon as the bees are retired to 

 reft ; that there may be fufEcient light lei- 

 furely to perform the operation. 



The GENERAL TIME OF DEPRIVATION, 



or taking up of stocks, varies in dif- 

 ferent counties, according to their different 

 temperatures ; but about the latter end of 

 Auguit is the ufual feafon. 



Bees kept in jingle hives ought to be taken 

 when honey-gathering begins to ceafe. This 

 may be known by a diminution of activity 

 in the bees (if not from bad weather) ; for, 

 when this happens, they begin to feed on 

 the hive honey, beginning with the un- 

 fealed or exterior cells firfr. Therefore, 

 the longer they are permitted to fraud, the 

 lefs honey there will be in the hive, when 

 taken ; and that in proportion to the num- 

 ber 



