How to furnifh the Colonies with Inhabitants. 49 
Provided it is an hive which you take, and with any 
confiderable number of Bees in it, you may drive them 
out into an empty hive, as fome writers have direCted. 
Placing an empty hive in a bucket with the mouth 
upwards, life the hive from the colony upon the 
other, tying a cloth prefently about them, turning the 
‘bottom hive to the top, which done you may carry them 
to fome diftance, and by a ftick ftrike fmartly all round 
the bottom hive, difturbing the Bees in it, flopping’ at 
times, to give them liberty to afcend. Be fure not to 
fhake the upper hive, during the operation, but keep it 
firm and fteady in it’s place. When you perceive by 
_ the noife of the Bees, they are got up, carry the hive, 
and knock the Bees out on the ground, or upon a cloth 
{pread upon it, with one end faftened to the lighting 
board, when they will go to the colony. 
But as I never place a ftraw-hive in a houfe or colony; 
T have no fuch trouble to come at their treafure. Ne- 
ver raife a colony after the tenth of Fu/y, and take away 
the loweft box, if it is not at leaft half filled with combs. 
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