MANAGEMENT OF BEES 
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profits from the same swarm during the past season, 
were $14. This operation may be performed with 
much more ease than to remove the honey from the 
Hive, and feed the Bees. In feeding bees, you are apt 
to loose your Bees by robbers, unless great caution is 
used. 
Many ways of transferring Bees have been advised 
by different Authors. There appear to be objections 
against all the methods recommended, and it is esteemed 
a difficult operation. But this difficulty seems to be 
obviated by the Self-Protecting Hive, as you will see 
by another rule. An eastern gentleman has tried the 
experiment of administering Ether, which soon pros- 
trates them and thay are transferred to another Hive 
before they recover ; perhaps this may be used with 
success, but it is doubtful. 
RULE FIFTH. 
On Removing Honey. 
' As soon as you discover that your drawers are full, 
and all the cells capped over, and most of the Bees 
left the drawers, (a few will remain to guard them,) 
insert a tin slide between the drawer and the chamber 
floor, then remove the drawers and insert empty ones 
in their place. Now remove the slide and let the Bees 
pass through the aperture, into the empty drawers. — 
They will discover that they have been robbed of a 
part of their Winter’s store, and unless the working 
season is too far spent, they immediately set them- 
selves to work to repair the loss. The labors of mak- 
ing comb and depositing honey, end, in this country 
about the last of August, or the first of September. 
After you have removed the honey drawers in this 
manner, take them near the house and set them on 
the glass end that the Bees may return to the Hive. — 
From this place take your drawers to a dark room, 
with a small opening ; set your drawer near the open- 
ing — rap a few times on the box, blow occasionally in 
the aperture, and the Bees will soon leave the drawer 
and honey for the owner. If their work is not com- 
