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Water is indispensable to bees; if not naturally in the 

 immediate vicinity of the hives, to be artificially supplied. 



Raw sugar never to be given to bees as food ; and no food 

 to be given to bees which has not undergone the process of 

 boiling, with the exception of honey itself. 



XXVIII. 



Neither tobacco nor sulphur to be used in the fumigation 

 of bees ; the smoke of dried leaves or rags will answer every 

 purpose. 



XXIX. 



Every hive to stand upon its own pedestal, two feet from 



the ground. Hives placed on benches are subject to pillage 



and battles. 



xxx. 



A person may by law follow his swarm into the garden of 

 another person, paying for all damage that he may occasion, 

 provided he can prove that he has never lost sight of the 

 swarm from its departure from the hive. 



The customary noise with pokers and shovels, and frying- 

 pans and warming-pans, is of no real benefit. The bees 

 will never settle until the queen sets them the example. 



Deprivation of hives to take place in the spring, and not 

 in the autumn. Glasses to be placed on hives in the month 

 of February or March. Hives seldom swarm which have 

 glasses put over them. 



XXXIII. 



Hives to be protected from the sun in summer when the 

 heat is very great. In spring, however, the coverings to be 

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