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AN EASY METHOD OF 
which is never used except for feeding young 
bees. A greater quantity of this bread is stor- 
ed up yearly than is used by them, and in a 
few years they have but little room to per- 
form their ordinary labors. Hence the neces- 
sity of transferring them, or the inhuman sen- 
tence of death must be passed upon them, not 
by being hung by the neck until they are 
dead, but by being tortured to death by lire 
and brimstone. 
It is obvious to every cultivator that old 
stocks should be transferred. I have repeat- 
edly transferred them in the most approved 
manner, by means of an apparatus constructed 
for that purpose ; but the operation always 
resulted in the loss of the colony afterwards, 
or a swarm which would have come from 
them. 
When it is neccssaiy to transfer a swarm 
from one Vermont Hive to another of the 
same kind, insert drawer No. 1 into their 
chamber in the spring, say the first of May. 
If they fill the drawer, let it remain there; if 
they need to be changed to a new hive, they 
will recede from the lower apartment and 
