How to re-inforce Bee-hives. 135 
Cri! An Poo XV IATL, 
HOW TO UNITE OR RE-INFORCE BEE-HIVES. | 
As the uniting or re-inforcing of bees is 
often neceflary to be performed during the 
fame feafon of the year, that they naturally 
fend off young fwarms, thefe two fubjeds will 
often fall to be occafionally intermingled in 
fuch a manner, that the one cannot be particu~ 
larly defcribed without taking notice of the 
other. But as each article is of too much im- 
portance, not to require a feparate chapter, 
and of courfe a precedence to one of them, f 
fhall firft defcribe the UNITING or RE-INFOR- 
c1NnG of bee-hives, as it is often neceflary in 
different feafons of the year, and hall devote 
a fubfequent chapter or two to the fubject of 
SwWARMING. 
In handling bees at all times, but efpecially 
when driving them, or managing a fwarm, 
gentlenefs and boldnefs are equally neceflary. 
Every 
