96 How to Prepare Stock Hives for Winter. 
at about half a mile’s diftance in every direc- 
tion ; and thus the whole kingdom, or even the 
whole ifland, might be covered with bee-hives, 
at proper regular diftances, wherever there is 
a fufficiency of food for the bees to work on. 
The hives fhould be placed on boards or ftools, 
made of well feafoned wood. Thefe boards fhould 
be made a little broader than the bottom of the 
hives, and fhould proje& about fix inches be- . 
fore the entry to it, that the bees may have a 
fufficient breadth to alight upon, when they re- 
turn from the fields. When a proper place is 3 
fixed on, where the hive is to be erected: jler 
three ftakes be driven into the ground, till the 
_ tops of them are within ten inches of it, and the 
foremoft ftake one inch lower than the other 
two. The ftool with the hive on it may then 
be placed upon thefe; and at fun-fet, let the 
flirts of the hive be plaftered all clofe to the 
board with plafter lime. Next, let two fmall 
holes be cut, in the under fide of a {mall piece © 
of hard wood, which mutt be fixed to the entry 
of the hive with lime. Thefe holes mutt jut 
be 
not too many hives in one place, they are not under fo much temp- 
tation to enter into fuch confli@s. But at the fame time, twen- 
ty or thirty may be placed in one large apiary, and all do very 
well, although the other method is rather to be preferred. 
