MANAGING BEES. 
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Young swarms should be scattered as much 
as convenient during the summer season, at 
least eight feet apart. If they are not housed, 
they should be set in a frame, and so cov- 
ered as to exclude the sun and weather from 
the hive. As a general rule, bees flourish 
better in vallies than on the high hills contig- 
uous to them, on account q,f bearing their 
burthens home with greater ease, descend- 
ing, than ascending, with a heavy load. 
It is not surprising that this branch of rural 
economy, in consequence of the depredations 
of the moth, is so much neglected. Notwith- 
standing, in some parts of our country, the 
business of managing bees has been entirely 
abandoned for years, I am confident they may 
be cultivated in such a manner as to render 
them more profitable to their owners than any 
branch of agriculture, in proportion to the 
capital necessary to be invested in their stock. 
They are not taxable property, neither does 
it require a large land investment, nor fences: 
neither does it require the owner to labor 
through the summer to support them through 
the winter. Care is, indeed, necessary ; but a 
