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HOW TO PREPARE STOCK HIVES FOR WINTER. 
isin the hives are brought home, ifroom _ 
will permit, let every hive be placed two or 
three yards afunder, that the bees of one hive 
may not interfere with thofe of another, as is 
fometimes the cafe, when the hives are feated 
near one another, or upon the fame ftandard ; 
for the bees, miftaking their own hives, alight 
-fometimes at the wrong door, and a battle en- 
fues, wherein one or more may lofe their lives. 
There fhould not be too many hives in one 
place... Eight or nine are fufficient for one 
garden* ; and as many more may be placed 
at 
* ‘When too many hives are placed in one apiary, they are 
eften troublefome in fwarming time, by the fwarms going to- 
gether, and by robbing one another, which they often-do in 
Spring and Autumn, as will be fhown afterwards. Befides, 
when one has to feed them, the fmell of the honey entices them 
to fteal from each other, which fometimes occafions many bat- 
éles; whereby many of the bees are killed. But when there are 
not 
