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from the Stool, and fet it over the Bees onthe Nap- 
kin, and they will in about anHour all craw! up,and 
become one Family ; if any of them crawl about on 
the Out-fide of the Hive, as they fometimes will, 
brufh them off upon the Napkin, and they will foon 
go to their Fellows; then about Eleven or Twelve a 
Clock take up the Hive, and put it in its Place, fo 
you fhall have two Gafts in one Hive, and in the 
fame manner you may have athird, and a fourth 5 
and thus you may have a ftrong Swarm of Bees for 
the next Year. ‘There is another way of joining 
Cafts, which may fometimes be more conveniently 
done ; having hived the Cafts in feparate Hives as 
before, join the two Bottoms at Night, fetting 
them upright, the leaft Caft undermoft, fix them 
faft for one whole Night, and ftop them in; if yoa 
find in the Morning, by applying your Ear to the 
Out-fide of the Hive,that all is quiet within, let them 
remain fo till Night, and then ftool them ; if they 
do not join, the lefier may be knocked out, and 
the larger placed over them the Night follow- 
ing. When Cafts are put together they will fight 
till one of the Queen-Bees is dead and thrown out 
of the Hive, and then they will join quietly. 
Since .generally fpeaking the taking of Cafts is 
troublefome, and unlefs they be joined as is here di- 
rected, they feldom-come to any thing, the throw+ 
ing forth thefe Cafts or fecond Swarms, °fhould be 
prevented if poffible. Now the Reafon of Bees 
{warming (as was before fhewed) is for want of 
Room to work in, and ifby any means the Hivecan 
be enlarged, in Proportion.to the Encreafe of the 
Stock by this fecond Brood, they will not caft.. For. 
this Purpofe therefore, the Perfon who makes.the 
Hive, fhould make three or four Rounds of Straw, 
in fuch manner as to fit the Mouth of the Hive, up- 
on which at corivenient times, it may be raifed, put- 
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