C.j. 
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Th * bacilli noXf 
and then to be 
tafymojf. 
H- 
The Min’-i «l- 
W-iits clofe doo- 
med. 
Nat.hift.li. ir. 
cap. 14. 
M. 
Thin fcldome It 
ie mow’d 
Kn. 41 . 49 . 
5 
& 9 - 
i€. 
Mow a Hint lif- 
ted vf it to be 
fit downe again, 
~~ » 7 - 
The Hiut-doyre, 
a8« 
The Gate or 
Snmmir-don^ 
Of the Hmet, 
downe to the place with two forked ftickes , the fork refting vpon the 
Belt, and the other end vnder the Cap. 
The Hackle thus fitted and placed, is now and then to be 
remoued, notonely to meet with Mifc, Moths, Spiders, Ere- 
wigs,&c. which harbour vnder ir, and to fee what breaches 
the Moufe and Tit-monfe haue made j butalfo to ayre the 
moift Hiue: and this in a vvarme and windy day after much 
wet. 
Next kcepe the Hiues alwaies clofe for defence of the 
Bees againfl their enemies. The belt cloome for that purpofc 
is made of Neats dung : circumltni alveos fimo bubulo uti - 
ijfimtim : but to harden it, temper i: with Lime or Afhes , 
with fand or_grauell, which are alfo good againft the gnaw- 
ing of Mife. With this cloome clofe vp the skirts &brackcs 
of your Hiues : that there be no way into them, but onely by 
thedoores. 
And being thus fafely (hut, moue’ them not without vr- 
gent occafion - } v. for often lifting vp the Hiue , and letting 
in the open aire doth difeourage the flail. 
But whenfoeuer you are occalioned fo to doe (the Bets 
being rtirring ) lefl any be crufhed betweene the skirts and 
the ftoole in letting it downe againe , teele vp one fide with 
a little tile-fhard: which, when the Bees are quiet,take away, 
and fee the Hiue clofe doomed againe. 
The Bees entrance, as anon in this Chapter is (hewed, mud 
be fometimelarger,fomenmeleire,fometirne nothing at all. 
And therefore cuery Bee-Hiue muff haue his Gate or Sum- 
mer-doorc, a Winter-doore or wicket, a Barre or (hutting 
of the wicker. 
The Gate or Summer-doore miifl be made of that fize,that 
the Bees in Summer , when their number is greateft , may 
haue aire enough, with free egrelfeand regrefle, not letting 
one another. The fpace of foure fquare inches is fuffirient 
for any flail. 
This Summer-doore is made thus r Firft cut away the lowed 
roule the fpace of fi-ue inches : and, with the Briar or Thred 
which bound that part,naake fad: both ends. Then fill vp a- 
gaine the two extreme halfe-inches of the fpace, with two 
Doore-polh. The 
