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every side) and that for divers night* together.

And if it bee an old Hive, though it were musty , yet hold-ing it over a site several time*, will sweeten it. And the Leerwill better like in such a Hive so ordered- than in a new one, not■purged with ct c site;

Mr.Southern. Mr. Sent bern , and others after him advise, that is Beet fir.default with a Hive, and will not continue in it, to pull out thespleats , and put into it a little quantity of Batly» Pease , ot'Mault, and let a Hog, eat it out of the Hive, turning the Hivewith your hand as hee cats, that the staves or froth bee makesmay remain in the Hive, and then wipe it lightly with a doath,and having put in your spleats again, hive your Bees in k, andthey will undoubtedly tarry. 1 never had occasion to experimentit, because that I never had swarm that I could not make co.tarry in one Hive, or other.

Many rub their Hives before they ufc them with fennel, orother fwcet-hetbs, and sprinkle them also with Honey and Beermingled together, Sweet-wort, Milk , or some other sweet li-quor, but 1 seldome use it, but onely as I said before,purifie andsweeten them with fire; and perhaps sec them, before they beeused, open ia the aire a few dayes out of the danger ofrain.

I have scarce (in forty fwarmsjand more that Thave had in ayear) hived one twice, Or had any return after that they havebfcen hived, except when the Queen Bee hath been want-ing.

Having prepared and dressed your Hues , the next thing thatyou ate to do is to flick them. And various are the fashionsMr-Ltvitoi* rhat atC observed, some doing it one-way, some another, Mr.dcricgofBees. Ltvh prescribes this course. Take a stick of Sallow, or Hascl,about the bigness of a mans thumb, Irt it bee a foot long, orsomewhat more, then cleave it crosj-wise from one end till youcome within a handfull of the other end, and no further, thenbend each quarter a several way , cutting off the sharp edges inthe midst of every one of them, then may you put the end thati» not cleft into the crown of the hive, and bending every ofthem a several way , stick them into the side of the- Hive, thatthey may foi ce the upper uncitsr end hard-to the crown of theHive; but if the Hr ye have a little hole in-the crown ( at many

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