How to order Bees in Hives. - Bo 
_ This memorable efcape, infpired her with great cou- 
rage, confimilar to thefe bold, daring, and undaunted 
infects, ‘That ever after fhe would refolutely undertake 
the moft hazardous fervices about them. 
April 30, 1737. Thad a fwarm, which fwarmed a- 
gain ‘fune 22d the fame year. 
Keep your hives as full of Bees as you can, for poor 
weak ftocks will but difappoint you. And thus will you 
have little or no occafion for feeding. 
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How to order Bees in Hives. 
AS foon as a fwarm is put into an hive, they marfhal 
\themfelves after their ufual manner, leaving a vacuity or 
empty fpace in the height of the hive, to give the labour- 
ing Bees liberty to carry on their work. 
They have indeed a commodious houfe, as a place 
of refuge and of reft, but no provifion; many mouths, 
but no meat; and likewife all their winter-ftore to lay 
in. If then they would live, labour is abfolutely necef- 
fary, and no time is to be loft. 
The very day therefore their owner put them into an 
houfe, they begin to furnifh it, to lay in food, and ga- 
ther honey ; as alfo wax, which is now for fome time 
their principal employment, that they may have their 
magazines in readinefs to receive the treafure. 
This then being their time of harveft, prevent (to 
your power) whatever may incommode or hinder them. 
All the month of-Fune, and to the middle of Fuly, let 
- them have room enough for labour. ‘Then begin to 
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