MANAGING BEES. 
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ment, they will be compelled to cut away the 
combs all around his silken path, or gallery 
and drag out the worm and his fortress all 
together. At the same time, the bees are 
compelled to cut away the combs so far as to 
destroy many of their young broods in making 
room to remove the annoyance. I have 
known them to cut away their combs from 
four to eight or ten inches to remove this 
silken shroud, and have known them to cut 
and drag out their only remaining Queen 
before she was transformed to the perfect lly, 
which occasioned the entire loss of the whole 
colony. 
, Repeated experiments have demonstrated 
the fact, that placing bees on the ground, or 
high in the air, is no security against the 
moths. I have lost some of my best stocks 
by placing them on the ground, when those 
on the bench were not injured by them. I 
have made a groove in the bottom board, 
much wider than the thickness of the boards 
to the hive, and filled the same with loam. I 
then placed the hive on the same, in such a 
manner as to prevent any crack or vacancy 
