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bees fall out upon turning up the hive, all of 
which are a confiderable-lofs. The older any 
hive is, there is the lefs danger of loofening 
the combs; and the more bees there are in it, 
the fooner they will run into the new hive; 
for the concuffion of the hive, by the rapping, 
alarms them, as an earthquake alarms man- 
kind, and they run to the upper hive in fearch 
of a more fafe habitation. Thofe that enter 
firft, finding -themfelves fafe, invite their bre- 
thren by their founding to follow them, which 
they quickly do. The fheet may then be re- 
moved, and the edge of the upper hive next the 
right hand lifted up, when, upon a narrow in- 
{pection, the Queen fometimes will be obferv- 
ed to go up along with the reft. 
When all the bees are thus removed into the 
‘ new hive, it may be placed where the old one 
.  ftood, which will colleé all the bees together, 
and within ten minutes, they will fall a work- 
ing as bufily.as any natural fwarm. 
Its neceflary, before this operation, to remove 
the hive, eight or ten yards at leaft, from every 
other hive, to’prevent difturbance from other 
bees. An empty hive fhould alfo be placed 
where the old hive ftood, to amufe thofe bees be- 
longing to it, that may return loaded from the 
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