MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 
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so that they will not leak — nil of a size — so that they 
will fit every Hive. He will go nmong his Bees fre- 
quently, as a good farmer does among his stock, to see 
that everything is in order. 
RULE TWENTY-SECOND. 
A poor Apiarian. 
A poor Apiarian makes his Hives of rough hoards, 
with open joints, to give the miller a good chance to 
enter and destroy his Bees. He makes his Hives after 
his Bees come forth and light — suffers them to cluster 
in the top of his fruit trees — never uses a Hiver — 
shakes them on a table— and kills a great many in 
Hiving them. He lets them remain in the sun until 
they have formed lines to their new habitation — con- 
sequently, many of the Bees will be lost when the Hive 
is removed to its destination. They will return to the 
place where they were Hived, if left long enough to 
form lines, which takes place soon after hiving. He 
suffers them to stand exposed to the sun and storms. — 
He never examines them to prevent the depredations 
of the moth. He suffers robbers to encounter and de- 
feat them, leaving only a Hive of dry comb, for the 
moth and their owner. 
He never feeds feeble swarms, but suffers them to 
rat 10 or 15 pounds of honey, and starve to death in 
March, or April. He lets the spiders build their webs 
about his Hives to catch his most industrious Bees.— 
He never gives them salt, and allows hogs and cattle to 
disturb them and upset the Hives. He suffufcites them 
with brimstone to get what little they have accomplished 
through the working season. When they swarm, ha 
rattles bells, pans, tongs, and blows horns, to drive them 
to the woods, to seek a better home. 
