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Ither with part of a comb of farina, and 

 another of honey : about a quart of bees 

 is then to be introduced, and the hive 

 flopped up, except a fmall paffage for air, 

 and fo remain three days. There will be a 

 great tumult and noife in the hive for fome 

 hours, when it will fubfide, and the bees will 

 begin to build a royal cell. The fourth day 

 an opening is to be made of a quarter of an 

 inch, that the bees may come out leifurely. 

 After roving about for fome time, they will 

 return to their hive. It mould be done in 

 the fpring. 



B.'s procefs is, I think, an improvement : 

 he drives the bees out, then cuts a piece of 

 comb out that has feveral maggots, of vari- 

 ous ages, and placing, &c, and then fets the 

 hive at a very confiderable diftance from the 

 apiary, without* flopping the bees in. This I 

 underftand to be B.'s method, for he feems 

 referved as to an explicit explanation. I 

 make no doubt but the ufe pf Khz puffs will 

 be found preferable, 



Shirach's Hopping the bees was ill judged, 

 and what, perhaps, occafioned my bad fuc- 



cefs. 



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