-km00—C «Co THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
And-whenever you fee them gathering together in lit- 
etle clufters. upon the hive, orftool, you may infer they 
care preparing and even ready fora dance ; and may ex- 
» pect them to rife prefently. ' 
- Get your hives in readinefs, and of different dimenfi- 
ons, that you may the better fuit them to the {warms. 
*Foover-hive them will be a great difadvantage. If un- 
‘ der-hived the prejudice is the lefs, and it is eafy to give 
: them enlargement. 
An hive holding three pecks, or - two pecks and an half, 
will be a fit fize for an early {warm of eight or ten thou- 
fand Bees. An hive of lefs meafure will be large: e- 
» nough for thofe that come later in the year, and in ie 
numbers, 
_ It.may perhaps be of fome fervice here 6 acquaint 
the reader with an experiment I made in O@ober 1743. 
_ when putting the Bees of a fmall and late fwarm, into 
an empty hive, and afterwards. upon a table, I took a 
particular account of their meafure, weight, and num« 
ber; in meafure a quart, in weight one pound and a 
quarter,.in number two thoufand. I firt.imprifoned the 
Queen, and having a perfon at hand to affift_me in the 
operation, particularly in counting them over, which 
took up the greateft part of the time, we had gone thro’ 
the whole trial, and perfectly finifhed it, before the leaft 
' fign of life could be feen in one fingle Bee. Butina 
few minutes more, fome figns of life began to appear 
firft in their moving legs, and then in other _parts ;.upon 
which [put them into another Hock, where they are itil 
-in one 
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