186 Advantages of changing the Situation of Bees. 
ginal early fituation, it would probably have 
become every day lighter after Lammas. - The 
only rifk in this cafe is, that if the weather 
turn out bad in Auguft, the bee-mafter will 
lofe all his trouble; but contingencies of this 
kind happen in every other bufinefs in which 
mankind engage, which neverthelefs do not 
deter us from adventuring. 
When bees are placed in a new fituation, 
‘they fhould not be permitted to come out of | 
their hives, for the firft time, in cold weather ; _ 
for, finding themfelves in a ftrange place, they 
will fly about and take a view of the neigh- 
bourhood ; and fome of them alighting, and 
refting on the cold ground, the cold benumbs _ 
them, and they perith, unlefs fpeedily recover- 
ed by the heat of the fun. When I remove a 
hive to a new ftation, I keep them clofe prifon-’ 
ers till the firft fine day, when, about 10 0’= — 
clock A, M.—the time they are moft impatient 
to 
as if it had been the middle of June. In the beginning of Sep- — 
tember, that year, I purchafed for a gentleman in Northum- 
berlend, a confiderable number of hives, that were only about 
half full of combs when placed in his apiary ; but the heath in 
his grounds being extremely rich and in full bloffom, the bees 
were Jo expeditious in their labours, that they filled the hives — 
completely with both ¢ombs and honey, within a week there- 
after. 
