192 Pe Hiftory of Bris. 
be able to go in or out, but at vis F ront 
Door, which is to be theie ony) ae Bip 
conftant Paffage. 
If you occupy none but Bouse you sail 
in’ a Week or ten Days Time, with Plea- 
fare, fee the Combs appear, and filling 
with Honey ; but if it be an Hive you will 
fee nothing till they have wrought down 
into the Box, 
I never employed an Hive in this Method 
but once, which proved fo difagreeable, and fo 
difficult to remove, that Ihave ever fince 
ufed Boxes only. | 
Never plant a Colony with 4 finele 
Swatm, as I have fornetimes done, but with 
little Succefs’ But your united Swarms will 
yield you a Box of the pureft Honey at 
the End of. ‘fune, or Beginning of Fuly, 
which makes a very great Difference. Here 
is both Profit and Pleafure, with a quick 
Return. | 
When the fecond Box, or the Bor under | 
the Hive, appears full of Bees aiid Combs, 
it is a proper Time to raife your Colony 
in the Dufk of the Evening, when all the 
Bees are at Home, in Manner following: 
Place your empty Box, with the fliding 
Shutter drawn back, behind your Houfe, _ 
near the Colony to be raifed; and near the °| 
‘Height of the. Floor, by the Help of ano- 
ther empty Box upon the Ground; then 
lifting up the Colony with what Expedition 
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