Of ibe Honey Harvef. 203 
_and which may be intermingled with bee-bread, 
thould be carefully and gently placed in an eek, 
(fee page 110, &c.), and a numerous hive put 
“over it, to hatch out the young brood, and fuck 
up the particles of honey remaining in the 
combs, and probably alfo make fome ufe of 
the bee-bread. This plan is of great advantage 
to the bee-mafter, as the young bees, which are 
always the beft, and which would otherwife 
have been totally loft, will thus be all pre- 
ferved ; befides that very little ufe could have 
been made of fuch honey. in the cells, as was 
mixed with young bees, eggs, and bee-bread. 
The eek and the combs may be removed in a- 
bout three or four weeks thereafter, and the 
hive fet down in its former {ftation. 
If the bee-mafter has not as many good 
hives as he wifhes to keep for itock, he may fup- 
ply himfelf,by conjoining the bees and honey of 
two light hives, and uniting them into one in 
September, as ment tioned in page 47. The hea- 
* — wieft hive fhould be firft feleted ; after which, 
_ the bees and honey fhould be ioe out of the 
light hives in the following manner: 
The Bee-matter mutt firft drive as many of 
the bees as poflible into an empty hive, as di- 
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