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inches fquare. Alfo you may make a third Box a-, 
bout two foot over or more, but let it be of the fame 
depth as the former, and remember always to en- 
creafe the number of your fquaresof Glafsand Poors 
proportionable to the Sides. 
4. Let the tops of chefe Boxes be of well- fea Ton ’d 
dry Wood, either Beech, Oak, Fir, or Sugar-chefts $ 
and make it #in panels join’d, to hinder fwelling, 
(hrinking, fplitting, warping, £ 5 V. The fides muft 
be with Studs and Panels, as all Jovners can inform 
you. 
5. The top of the infide may be either the Board 
or ('if you think ’twill fhrink) lined with a thin Mat, 
or plaifter it with fine Mortar made of Hair gnd 
Lime, not forgetting to finge the Hair off, which 
may perhaps flick on the outfide of the Mortar. 
6. Make Sticks to hang in feveral parts of the 
Boxes of about half an inch fquare^fix’d in the up- 
per part of the Box, and reaching to the bottom or 
very near it, that it may keep the'Combs fteddy, 
and the Bees may come eafier to their Combs. 
6. Of thefe Boxes, the firft ^ou may take a Swarm 
into at fwarming-time, and fix it where it is to ftand, 
leaving both the Doors open to the Points before 
mention’d, which, if the Swarm is large will quick- 
ly be fill’d. 
7. When you find it near full, add the fecond Box 
under it, placing the firft on the middle of that, but 
leave the middle hole open. 
8- Do this in the cool of the Evening, or in the 
Night ; the next day part will take to the new Box, 
but the majority continue their former bufmefs till 
the upper is quite fill’d, then they will fall to work in 
the lower, and perhaps fill that the fame Summer 
alfo. If you find occafion, you may add a third, a 
fourth, or a fifth, leaving the Doors of each Box 
open us the weather requires ; b :t if it grpws cold, 
and they labour lefs, you may leffen their paflage by 
fmall Wedges made flat and fit for the purpofe. So 
you 
