142 DEPRIVATION. 



their feeble neighbours, having few collec- 

 tors,loft that fhort but precious opportunity. 



It is beft to separate boxes about ten in 

 thfc morning, when the greateft number of 

 bees are out ; as it can be done with more 

 eafe and fecurity than in ftraw hives. 



In fmall apiaries, the divider had better 

 be moved under a hive the night before, and 

 then the bees will be fo little difturbed as 

 hardly to refent it. 



When bees are terrified by the operation 

 of deprivation, or other violence, they be- 

 come regardlefs of their queen, till the panic 

 has fubfided. At the feafon of deprivation, 

 the light flocks had better be incorporated, 

 three or four, at difcretion, in a hive, and 

 proportionally furnifhed with honey. 



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