58 AN EASY METHOD OF 
A bee-hive should be made in a perfectly 
workmanlike manner, so as to have no open 
joints ; the boards should be free from shakes 
and cracks, because the bees will make their 
tenement perfectly tight, so as to exclude 
light and air, by plastering up all such places 
as are left open by the workman, with a kind 
of mortar, or glue, of their own make, which 
is neither liouey nor wax, but is very congen- 
ial to the growth of worms in the' first stages 
of their larva state, and being, secured from 
the bees by the timber, in a short time they 
are able to defend themselves by a silken 
shroud. 
Now the miller enters the hive and makes 
an incision into the bee-glue, or cement, with 
her sting, and leaves her eggs. These eggs 
hatch there, and the brood subsist on the 
glue until they have anived so far towards 
maturity as to enable them to encase them- 
selves in a silken shroud; and then they 
move onward. 
Now, unless the bees chance to catch him 
by the collar, or nape of his neck, while feed- 
ing, and drag him out of his place of conceal- 
