To raife dead. Bees to Life. 
I ) EES often dying of Hunger and Cold, take 
J fuch of ’em as have not been dead long enough 
to putrifie, hold ’em in your warm Hand, but don’t 
bruife ’em, and in a quarter of an hour they’ll come 
to life; when you find ’em fo, open your Hand, and 
•they will fly home to their Hives. By this means I 
have rais’d many thoufands to Life. When their 
numbers have been too much for my Hand, I have 
fpread a Handkerchief on the Grafs, and fo pick’d 
up four, .five, or fix hundred at a time, and laid ’em 
at a convenient diftance from the Fire, that the heat 
might be moderate ; now and then l turn’d em, that 
they might all % fhare of the heat, and in a fhort time 
they would come to life; fo when I found ’em at- 
tempting to get away, I have carried ’em to my 
Garden, and opening my Handkerchief, they have 
all flown home to their Hive. 
Note, thefe Difafters of Hunger and Cold happen 
moftly in Spring and Autumn. Whether this Author 
ever brought to life Bees kill’d by fighting, he does 
not fay ; but it Teems to me, that it might be as well 
done by them, as by the drown’d, ftarv’d, E5V. but be- 
ing a Stranger to that Experiment, I leave it to 
others, to try if they think it convenient or probable. 
Mr. Furcbafe fays, that this may be done when the 
Bees appear or Teem as dead ; but I cannot think 
they can be rais’d when quite dead ; for, if fo, I fhou’d 
think thofe kill’d by Fighting may as well be'brought 
to life. 
Hotv to raife a large Stock of Bees. 
I F you begin with five good Stocks, which may coft 
five Half-crowns or Crowns, the firft Year you 
may have about 12 good Stocks, the next Year about 
30, and the third Year 100, if the Years prove good, 
and you meet not with Cafualties; (b that if you 
get an hundred Stocks, they may be worth 2$ /. at 5 s. 
a Stock ; which if you begin with double the number, 
in the fame time you will gain double the Profit, or 
more. F J N'J s* 
