92 Of the Removing of Bee-hives. 
dance of frefh air. For, the great heat of the 
bees, when no air is admitted, will melt the 
combs and the honey, and fuifocate or drown 
the bees. In this manner, valuable hives have 
often been loft in the fummer feafon, by ig- 
norant perfons, who had been employed to— 
tranfport them, fhutting up the door of the 
hive fo clofe, that no air could get in. The 
proper method to prevent the bees from com- 
ing out of the hive, in cafe of removal) in 
warm weather, or indeed at any time, and at 
the fame time to admit a circulation of air, 1s, 
to get a piece of lead or tin plate, pierced full 
of fmall holes, and fixed to the entry of the 
hive. ‘This will anfwer both purpofes, by ad- 
mitting frefh air, and at the fame time pre-_ 
venting the bees from flying away. , 
When the diftance is great, and there is a con- 
fiderable number of hives to betranfported, (per- 
haps to the diftance of 6, 12, 20 or 50, miles)in- | 
to an in-land country, carriages that move on 
fprings are by all means to be preferred, 
When thefe cannot be obtained, the hives may 
eafily be carried on carts or waggons, in cold 
weather, by placing them with their bottoms 
upmoft on large quantities of f{traw, hay, or 
any other foft article, By this method I have 
carried 
