How to preferve thé Bees Lives. SI 
‘ The method I have perufed with fo great fuccefs for 
many years, and now recommend to the publick as moft 
effe€tual for preferving Bees in common hives, is incor- 
poration, or uniting two ftocks into one, by the help of 
, a-peculiar fume, or opiate, which for atime will put 
them entirely in your power to divide and difpife of at 
your pleafure. Yet know that dominion over them will 
be but of fhort duration, therefore you muft be expediti- 
ous in the operation. 
_ You muft know the Queen or commanding Bee per- 
fe€tly well, which you are immediately to fearch for 
among the multitude, to apprehend and imprifon, return- 
‘ing her no more to her beloved and moft loyal fubjects. 
Search among the Bees which you deftroy by brimftone, 
whereby you may learn to know her. 
No new fwarms or ftocks fhould be thus united, ex- 
cept very late ones, and cafts, which have not gained a 
fufficient quantity of honey for their winter ftore. Such 
I always unite, to fave their lives. 
Hives or flocks, which have {warmed once or twice, 
confequently reduced in their numbers, are the fitteft to 
be joined together, which will greatly ftrengthen and 
improve them. 
Neverthelefs, if you have a ftock both rich in honey, 
and full of Bees, which you are defirous to take, it is 
but dividing the Bees into two parts, and put them into 
two other hives, inftead of one. 
I muft add one precaution more under this head, z. ¢. 
examine firft that ftock, to which you defign to join the 
Bees of another, whether there is honey enough in it, to 
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