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Advantages of changing the Situation of Bees. 185 
Crna Er XI, 
ADVANTAGES OF CHANGING THE SITUATION OF BEE-HIVES 
TO BETTER PASTURE. 
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A cone Lammas, thofe who live in fitua- 
tions where the vegetation is early over, ef- 
pecially if poflefled of a large number of hives, 
ought to remove their bees to the neighbour- 
hood of heath grounds, if they fhould even 
be fix or eight miles diftant, and allow them 
to continue in that fituation till the heath gives 
ever bloffoming. This meafure | would earn- 
eftly recommend, as the bees, after having 
had all the advantage of their early. fituations, 
will work as late in the feafon, as thofe in the 
‘Jateft tuations. I have often feen a hive, by 
being placed nigh heath, become ten, twelve, 
or fifteen pounds heavier, in the month of Au- 
euft; | whereas, if it had remained in its ori- 
Aa ginal 
+ I can affure my readers, that, in the middle of September 
1792, I have feen bees in fuch fituations, filling their hives 
with combs and honey, as plentifully and as expeditiouily; 
as 
