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ther in a Bee-Houfe; the manner of ufing them is 
this: When the Bees have fill’d one Box with Ho- 
ney, and are preparing to {warm, then you are to 
raife the Box that is full, upon another empty Box, 
which has a fquare Hole on the Top for the Bees 
to pafs from the upper Box to the lower ; the Bees 
finding Room in the lower Box, immediately fall 
to work to fill it with Combs and Honey. The 
propos’d Advantage of this Method is this, that 
when you intend to take the Honey, you need only 
take away the upper Box, running a wooden Slider 
acrofs the Hole of Communication, which cuts the 
Combs, and feparates the upper Box from the lower, 
by which means the {warming of Bees is prevented, 
and the Honey taken without {mothering or de- 
ftroying the Bees. But thefe Boxes are coftly and 
troublefome, fo as not to be fit for the Countryman. 
‘The Box-Hives for four Colonies, at three Boxes to 
each, will coft Ten Pounds, befides the Bee-Houfe. ; 
whereas the Straw-Hive cofts but Hight-pence, the 
Hoop at Bottom Two-pence, and an Hoop to en- 
large it, hereafter to be defcribed, Six-pence, which 
for twelve Hives comes not to a tenth part of that 
Eixpence 3 by the Boxes indeed the Honey is taken 
without deftroying the Bees, which is but a {mall 
Advantage, confidering the Bees are Annuals, and 
that taking their Winter-Provifion from them, 1s 
little fhort .of deftroying them ; fo that unlefs they 
is well fed, the Colony will be in Danger of being 
oft. 
A Gentleman of this Socrery, whofe Curiofity 
prompted him to try this Experiment of Dr. War- 
ders, aflures m®, that tho’ it were cheaper than the 
Method here recommended of Strawhivesand Hoops, 
yet he found it both in point of Profit and convent- 
ence, much inferior to this Method for many Rea- 
fons. 
There 
