A CHAPTER OF WELL SETTLED FACTS, 91 
MOVING BEES. 
Bees may be moved to any distance at any time, but 
the summer is the best time. They should be shaded 
from the sun, kept as quiet as possible, and all jarring 
avoided. On a long journey, in hot weather, opportuni- 
ties should be given them to fly daily, if couvenient : the 
longer their confinement, the greater the liability of loss 
by disease. If in box hives, the hive should be inverted, 
its open end covered with gauze-wire cloth, and near its 
opposite end holes should be provided and covered with 
the same material for admission of fresh air. If in the 
Langstroth or similar hives, the combs must be first se- 
cured, or they may be broken down by the swinging of 
the frames, and the bees thus destroyed. Bees in my hives 
may be moved without preparation, except having the 
gauze-wire cloths in the honey board cleaned, and the 
front slide removed and a curtain of wire cloth substi- 
tuted in its place. The combs are secure as in a box 
hive, for the frames cannot move. 
A CHAPTER OF WELL SETTLED FACTS. 
]. All stocks of bees should be kept strong in numbers. 
A well garrisoned city may defy assault. 
2. A moderate increase of swarms will keep them 
strong, and secure the largest yield of honey. 
As the calves are raised at the cost of butter and cheese, 
so bees are multiplied at the expense of honey. 
3. Bees filled with honey, are not inclined to sting. 
As the robber’s knife is stayed by your purse, so bees 
are bribed with proffered sweets. 
4, In natural swarming, bees fill themselves with honey. 
Emigrants to a new country carry their treasures along 
as capital to begin with. 
