MANAGING BEES. 
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of resuscitation. The feeder should be used 
in every case, to give the bees exercise, and 
restore activity. 
A cellar made in the side of a dry hill, so 
covered as to keep out water, is a good stor- 
age for wintering bees. There should be two 
ventilators at the two most extreme parts of 
the cellar — one near the bottom and on its 
side, to admit pure air — the Giber through the 
top or covering, to let the bad air escape. 
RULE XIII. 
ON TRANSFERRING SWARMS. 
This operation should never be effected 
by compulsion. 
First Method. — Insert drawer Np. 1 into 
the chamber of the hive to be transferred, as 
early as the first of May. If the bees fill the 
drawer, they will recede from the lower apart- 
ment and winter in the 'drawer. As early in 
the spring as the bees carry in bread plentiful- 
ly on their legs, remove the drawer, which 
will contain the 'principal part of the bees, to 
an empty hive. Now remove the old hive a 
few feet in front, and place the new one con- 
