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It is almost needless to add, that if the operator he a 
smoker of tobacco, a few whiffs from his pipe will 
answer the purpose better than either of the modes 
above described. 
OnDeprivalion and Transportation . — The swarm- 
ing season terminates, generally, about the first week 
of July, a few days sooner or later, according to the 
climate, and the temperature of the season. After 
that period, no emigration ought to be allowed ; or 
if it take place in spite of our endeavours to prevent 
it, the swarms should be restored to the mother- 
hives. The massacre of the Males, which takes 
place about the beginning of August, seems to afford 
a not unequivocal symptom that the richest part of 
the honey-season is nearly over, and that the bees 
are aware of the necessity of cutting off all unneces- 
sary expenditure of food. Those cultivators, there- 
fore, who pursue the system of appropriating a portion 
of the honey accumulated during the summer-months 
of June and J uly, — who content themselves with a 
share only of the fruits of Bee- industry, and who 
make use of hives conveniently constructed for this 
purpose, — or who have an opportunity of availing 
themselves of the near neighbourhood of heath, — 
may now proceed with the process of deprivation. 
The use of storied hives, of Huber’s, and of others 
which divide vertically into halves, renders this pro- 
cess very simple. The quantity of honey in hives 
of this construction can be at all times accurately 
ascertained ; so that it can be seen at once whether 
there be any available surplus, and what combs, as 
