How to manage Bees in Winter. 10g 
generally, therefore, let the remaining bees of 
fuch an unfortunate hive, take their chance ; 
and: on the firft favourable day allow them to 
_ fly about, and difcharge their burdens, which 
muit doubtlefs enable them to return to the 
chive with a greater degree of health; but I am 
confident that many of the difeafed ones never 
return, and indeed the hive will be fully as 
well without them. ! 
About the middle of attire. every hive 
may be gently lifted off the ftool, and the 
{tate of it examined. The ftool fhould then 
be carefully cleanfed of dead bees, or any filth 
that may have gathered upon it during the 
winter. The hive fhould then be replaced u- 
pon the ftool, and carefully plaftered about the 
{kirts again, and covered over as formerly. If 
the bees of any hive have deferted it, and 
gone into another, which they fometimes do, 
(as fhall be further noticed in a fubfequent 
chapter,) the hive may be carefully kept, in or- 
der to feed bees with the honey it contains in 
fpring, or to receive a young {warm in fum- 
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