How to re-inforce Bee-hives. 143 
to the window.; and a fhort time after, let the 
hive be placed near them, and they willall run 
into it chearfully : after which the hive, thus 
_re-inforced, may be placed in its former fitua- 
tion, providedit be about a mile diftant from the 
_ place witere the old hive formerly ftood. -Up- 
on this pian, e e 
out of a hive 
the bees wil 
the bees of th 
_ join them, upon their uniting kindly, the re- 
ed as above directed. 
br) 
‘ Lae A 
all the combs may be taken 
during which time, 
to the window, and a few of 
e receiving h e being made to 
( ceiving hive may be pl 
| [have often re-inforced weak hives in fpring, 
which have done very well, tho igh, at other 
ate 
_ times, they turned out very in ercotly.« & 
| therefore feldom attempt to do it now, till the 
oie hives are full of bees, and feem to be 
hear {warming : on which oceafions they can 
Osi 2000 common bees to ftrengthen a weak 
hive, with very little i injury to their own. 
Again, i in fummer, a weak hive nay be re- - 
-inforced by changing its fituation with that of 
a ftrong one, upon a fine day, when the bees 
a are bufily employed at work. I have often 
practifed this bufinefs with~rauch fuccefs and 
fatisfaction. But, if they fhould not unite in 
ey friendly manner, let both be turned up, the 
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