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sitory, and exposed to the efferts of the sun, with some 
caution, however, lest the sun he too intense, and melt 
the combs : care should he taken to secure this hive, 
also, from the pillaging Bees, by removing it at some 
distance from the Apiary, in some retired spot. The 
eggs left in the cells will come forward, and thus re- 
people the hive, and if no queen appears amongst 
them, the earliest opportunity must be taken of ex- 
tracting a queen, witii some drones, from another hive, 
(as has before been noticed,) and thus effecting the 
formation of this new colony.” Mr. Huish thus adds, 
“ I never, however, knew that a hive thus regenerat- 
ed, swarmed the same year, although Mr. Ducouedic 
affirms it, especially if the Apiary be in the vicinity 
of heath, or buck- wheat. Neither is it to be desired 
from so weak a stock ; it is fit only for to be preserv- 
ed over for the next season.” 
chap.^'mii. 
On the custom of transporting Hives of Bees from place 
to place, for a change of pasturage, ^-c. 
In many countries this is considered as a very im- 
portant point in the practical management of Bees. 
Savery, in his letters on Egypt, enters into a long de- 
tail of the manner in which the Egyptians transport 
their hives along the banks of the Nile, for the pur- 
poses of fresh pasturage, and concludes thus, “ This 
species of industry, procures to the Egyptians, an 
abundance of wax and honey, and enables them to ex- 
port a considerable quantity to foreign countries.” 
This practice is alike common to the,jChinese, Ita- 
lians, French, Germans, &c. Mr. Boman, in his dic- 
tionary, observes, “ Great are the advantages of be- 
ing in the vicinity of some navigable river; by these 
means the spring of a dry country, can be united 
with the autumn of a fertile, umbrageous one, and 
thereby ample amends be made lor the poverty of 
the country in which the Apiarian may be established.” 
