How to bake the. Straw-Five. 19% 
Thus have: you.an Hive or-Box, of Ho= 
hey; and all. your.Bees faved, which will 
deepens you By their, future feithfut Lae 
bours. ° 
iaProvided tit ts: an Hive which, cone cai 
and with any confiderable Number.of Bees 
in it, you may drive them out into/an-empty 
Hive, as fome Writers have directed, 
Placing an empty Hive: in..a Bucket. with 
the Mouth upwards, lift the Hive from the 
Colony upon the other, tying a Cloth pre- 
fently about them, turning the Bottom Hive 
to the Top, which done .youw may .carry — 
them to fome Diftance, and by a. Stick 
firike {martly. all round the Bottom Hive, 
difturbing the Bees in it, {topping at Times; 
to give them Liberty to afcend.. Be fure 
not to fhake the upper Hive, during the 
Operation, but keep it firm and; fteady in 
it’s Place. When you perceive by the Noife 
of the Bees, they are got up, catry the 
Hive, and knock the Bees out on the 
Ground, or upon a Cloth. {pread upon it, 
with one End faftened to the lighting Board, 
‘when they will go to the Colony. 
But as I never place a Straw+hive in a 
Houfe or Colony, I have no fuch Trouble: 
to come at their Treafure. Never raife-a 
Colony after the Tenth, of Fulys. and. take 
away the loweft. Box,. if. it, ds .not at leat 
pagid filled with Combs. 
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