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CHAPTER XXVI. 
ON BURYING BEES. 
I nave lately been made acquainted, and 
from good authority, with the singular expe- 
dient of burying hives of Bees in the earth 
for their preservation during winter. It 
would appear, a priori, a visionary scheme, 
altogether inconsistent with the principles oy 
nature, that animals or insects, whose resi- 
dence is on the earth, could exist, when de- 
prived of air and light beneath its surface 
Hives of Bees have been preserved through 
the winter, when deposited three or four feet 
below the surface of the earth, and this you 
may try, if you please, only mind you bury 
them ina dry place. It has been practiced 
in Rhode Island for several years, and itis 
seldom that a swarm perishes in that situa- 
tion. ‘Tio my view, however, it appears an 
unnatural process thus to subject insects to 
a sudden transition from atmosphertical air 
