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Aavvaniages of changing the Situation of Bees. 187 
to get out, I place a feeding comb before their 
entry, which I at the fame time open, andthe 
bees come out in great numbers, and fly about 
with great alacrity, making their ufual chear- 
ful mufic in the air, for two or three minutes, 
and taking a view of their new fituation. In 
the mean time, fome of them difcover the feed- 
ing comb, and entertain themfelves with it, 
while the flying bees alight at the entry, and 
make their ufual mufic for joy ; which invites 
the {traggling bees to return home, fo that, 
perhaps, fcarce a fingle bee of the whole hive 
will have miffed its way ; whereas, if they are 
allowed to go out fingly, efpecially in cold . 
weather, a. confiderable number of bees will 
be loft, for want of fuch mufic in the air, or 
at the entry of the hive, to call them home. 
In the removal of bees in general, it is better 
and fafer, to remove a hive to the diftance of a 
mile or fo, than to a nearer fituation ; for, when 
a hive is removed out of an apiary, where there 
are a confiderable number of hives, to the dif- 
tance of about a quarter of a mile or fo; and ef- 
cially, if the bees are allowed to come gradually 
out of their hives, they will fly to their old place 
of abode; but not finding their own hive, they 
will fly about in fearch of it, in a difconfolate 
Aaa , manner 
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