MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 
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When small swarms are put into large Hives the 
Bees soon become disheartened. They cannot keep 
up animal heat sufficient to make their wax work well, 
guard the Hive, and carry on their necessary labor for 
want of numbers; and they give up their habitation 
and property collected in store, to the moth, and nekrh- 
boring Bees. 
The miller more frequently encounters Bees in the 
old Box Hive than any other. Those who use them, 
and will take the pains to examine, will find, if the mil- 
ler has not already gained possession, that they are in 
every crack in the Hive, and under the bottom board, 
ready to make an entrance as soon as an opportunity 
is presented. When they once gain possession of the 
Hive, the work of death commences ; and the loss of 
the Apiarian is sufficient to have purchased the right 
to use the Vermont Hive, or almost any other one guard- 
ed against these assassins. 
RULE TENTH. 
On Feeding Snail and Weak Swarms. 
Every Apiarian should examine his Bees in Octo- 
ber, and if any swarms have not sufficient quantity 
of honey to winter them, they should be supplied by 
removing the honey drawers from the chamber, and 
setting in a shallow dish ol honey or good maple 
molasses. The Hive should be well secured from 
robbers; and if strained honey or molasses is fed, it 
should be filled with small pieces of comb to prevent 
the Bees from drowning, and they will soon secure 
the honey, and deposite it in their cells for their Win- 
ter’s store. 
If you have several swarms that need feeding, and 
are not able to supply them all, it will be best to suf- 
focate part of them and feed their store to the living- 
colonies. By this means, a part of your feeble swanns 
will be saved : otherwise, they will all die in the course 
ot the winter. I have adopted the above rule with 
much benefit for a few years past. The most appro- 
priate time for feeding is in October, before the weath- 
