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in numbers, they will form a good ftock, if 

 a good hive of honey is placed over them. 

 Otherwife, fuffocate them* and take the ho- 

 ney, and fave the brood, if any. 



Cottagers may unite them by turning 

 one hive bottom upwards, in a cold day, for 

 feveral hours, till the bees become chilled and 

 feeble : the combs are then to be taken out 

 feverally, and the bees brufhed off upon a 

 table, and the queen taken from them. Then 

 put the bees into a pail, pan, &c. lay two 

 flicks acrofs, and place the other hive over 

 it ; clofe the joining with a cloth, all but 

 the door-way. Let them ftand thus two 

 or three days, in which time they will have 

 united. If afterwards the hive fhould be 

 found too light, the bees fhould be fed. 



After all, this is but a fhift, which feldom 

 anfwers. Had they been incorporated in 

 fummer, they would have turned to good 

 account. ■ 



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