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Provifion ; many Mouths, but no Meat; and 
likewife all their Winter-Store. to layin, If 
then they would live, Labour is abfolutely 
neceflary, and no Time is to be loft. 
The very Day therefore their Owners put 
them into an Houfe, they begin to furnith it, 
to lay in Food, and gather Honey ; as alfo 
Wax, which is now for fome time their princi- 
| pal Employment, that they may have their Ma- 
gazines in Readinefs to receive the Treafure. 
This then being their Time of Harveft, 
prevent (to your Power) whatever may in- 
commode or hinder them. 
All the Month of tune, and to the mid- 
dle of uly, let them have Room enough 
for Labour. Then begin to ftraiten the 
Paflage ; for no fooner doth Honey begin 
to fail abroad, but the Robbers will be try- 
ing to break in and fteal; and Prevention 
is better than a Cure.* 
In the next Month make the Pafflage leffer 
ftill, fo a few Bees will more eafily guard it. 
This 1s the worft Month in all the Year 
for Robbing ; and therefore a ftrict and 
daily Infpettion and Overfight is requifite. 
The Method I ufe is as follows ; which 
effectually prevents the Entrance of the Mice 
(their mortal Enemies) and’ the finking of 
the Hive’s Mouth, when it-is old, which 
often ftops the Paflage, and fhuts them in, 
greatly to their Prejudice. 
Take 
* Venienti occurrite Morbo, 
