a t
taming bees. [illegible] della rocca, bees in paris tamer, them or they are
accustomed to man, handled if carefully, sudden admission of light from
above particularly alarms rather than enrages, withdrawal of comb from the hive
above all things quiet, feel that they are to lose it, fill themselves, must
be no jar, huber hive not withdrawing com, does not answer as well, as jarring
tends to loosen comb they have an instinctive aversion to it. 
transporting. June 11th 1852. i may yet have to come to the plan of having
two apiaries at a distance in order to multiply swarms to the best 
advantage, but if my nucleus plan will answer i can [illegible] this. 
suppose the nucleus lit above until their queen is impregnated. 
say i had 100 stocks and wished to make 50 new ones. 
have 50 nuclei in the new hives. 
November 9th, 1852. 
trap. cover. by making the front part of the lower part of the 
outside cover of two inch stuff, 1st, a place is made
for the traps to slide under so that they are kept in place and not liable
to be displaced by the wind, 2nd, a protection is gained to keep rain
from penetrating the hive, when hive inclined backwards for feeding,
3rd, a rest for the cover when elevated so as to give a view of the
hive, all the advantage of [illegible] given, and yet none of their disadvantages. 
this projecting front of some and the traps should be painted a different color 
from the rest, so that when hives stand near, some have these parts yellow 
some green, some red, and some white, in this way the bees will not be near
so likely to lose their young queens, or let all the blocks only be painted, and five
little strips onto such hives as have young queens which might leave to meet the drones
the only other suitable [illegible] hive, is a snow white. 



