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it for about an hour, and then flop it again 5 

 Hide under it the divider, fume it, put the 

 bees in an empty hive, and fet them over 

 another (lock. By this means, as they gra- 

 dually acquire vigour, they will affimilate 

 with the flock, without any difturbance. 

 The hive of combs taken mofl likely will 

 have much brood therein, which is to be 

 difpofed of as before mentioned, and what 

 honey there is is at the owner's fervice. 



No. XIII. 



STo unite weak Stocks or Swarms in Autumn. 



If, through inadvertence, weak flocks or 

 fwarms have been retained till autumn, and 

 one of them has a fufficient winter's {lore, 

 incorporate the lighted with the flrongeft, 

 by fuming each feparate, and then placing 

 the weak one over the other. When the 

 bees recover, they will unite without flrife, 

 and the fupernumerary queen be call out. 

 If they are both poor in honey, but flrong 



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