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flow to re-inforce Bee-hives. = 141 
In fummer, a weak hive, that has few inha- 
bitants, may be re-inforced with a number of 
bees from a ftrong one, in the following man- 
ner: Suppofing there are two apiaries, a mile 
diftant from, each other; and that, in one of. 
them, there are a weak hive and a {trong one, 
fituated within two feet or two yards of each 
other ; and no other hive near them: in fuch 
-acafe, let the ftrong hive be removed, about 
ten o'clock A. M. when the bees are bufy at 
work, to twenty or thirty yards diftance, and 
let the weak hive be placed where the {trong 
one f{tood. All the bees, belonging to the 
{trong hive, that were abroad in the fields, will 
_ thus, on their return, go into the weak hive and | 
unite peaceably with its inhabitants. Upon 
this plan, fcarce one of twenty will fight ; but 
if they fhould, which is feldom the cafe when 
they are bufy at work, then the {trong hive 
muft be immediately brought back, and placed 
in its former fituation; and the weak hive 
turned up and rapped heartily, upon vhich 
the 
caufe the bees raife it to be either a Queen or a common bee as [ 
pleafe : I can make my bees reft upon myfelf or any perfon near 
me, without offering us the fmalleft injury; and I can make 
them fall upon us with the fury of as many dragons, fo that we 
would be glad to fly with as much precipitation, as a few rioters 
would do before a regiment of dragoons. 
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