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you are fure of .a Queen-Bee, and-carry the reft a- 
way to fome Diftance, fo you may be pretty fure of 
two good Hives however. a ii : 
Some. Authors give. Directions, how to defend 
the Hands and Face from the fting of the Bees ;_ bur 
unlefs they be fettled in an untoward Place and Pof- 
ture for hiving, there is not any great Danger; how- 
ever the Hands may be covered with a pair of wool- 
len Gloves, (for the Bees will, ftick their fting thro’ 
Leather) and a Gaufe or Cyprefs may vail the Face, 
and fecure it from Danger. Soe oy 
~ Cafts, or fecond Swarms, except they be early, 
and out of large Stocks, feldom thrive, there is 
 fearce one Caft in twenty that will gather Honey 
enough to keep them till the next Spring ; fo that 
they are generally taken up, at the End of the Sea- 
fon, with the old Stocks, but they have fo little 
Honey in them, that they turn to no Account 3 the 
way to make fomething of them,.1s to put two or 
three of thefe Cafts together into one Hive, and fo 
they will. become one good Stock, and ftand out 
the Year very. well. The manner.is as follows, - 
., When you have.a Caft or fecond, Swarm, take it 
into the Hive as you do the Swarms, and put it in- 
toits Place;, then perhaps two or.three Days af- 
ter, or.a Week, you. may have another Caft up, 
and, pitched ;;Iet this fecond. Caft -be hived by it 
felfalfo, and fer under thei ‘Tree where it pitched 
till Night, when, you muft join them thus; {pread 
a Napkin about. Tena Clock at. Night, on the 
Ground, clofe by the Stool of the firft Caft,. then 
lay; a flick crofs the Napkin, fetch the fecond Caft 
that fwarmed that Day, and with a firong ftroke on 
the ftick that lies: crofs the Napkin, knock out the 
Bees,. which will all come out at that one ftroak, up- | 
onthe Napkin jin.a broad Lump ; then throwing a 
Hive out of your Hand, take your firft San off 
>¥ . irom 
