A Theatre of Political Fifing Insecls.

April in a warme Spring, observe what H:ves are full, and beginto lye out, and set a Hive with the Combes that the Bees dyedout of the Winter immediatly before, next to such a full Hive,and you shall have them work into it presently, and Catty inabundance of Honey ; of necessity many os them must havebeen idle in their owne Hive, there-being no roome for half towork y they take this as a retiring house which they will workin, and stay in too, night and day, only keeping an intercourse"with their owne, which will swarme never the later, and as soonas by the emifliort of a Colony there is roome made in their ownHive, they willgoe agiine to their Leader and leave their pro-vision ; is some few stay when you take i r, knock them out, andthey will returne to their old habitation ; I had this last year,one thousand six hundred fifty six. in sour such By-hives thusgathered, in eight dayes before the end of April neere fourgallons of Honey, and the Hives also swarmed in April ; thisHoney was pure Virgin Honey, as white almost as milk.

But if they stand a week in OMap and swarme nor, then takethe retiring Hive and carry it some distance from the stools, andknock it on the crown and sides, and they will all goe out totheir owne Hive. But if you dare not venter on this com fe, thendrive them into an empty Hive, and the day following knockthem out neer their owne Stock,'and they will quickly return intoit. By this, conjefture how much honey Bees gather in theSpring, but of this more afterwards, so that it is neither forwant of roome, or stooles, or wit ( as some imagine ) to setHives on benches under a penthouse. 1

Mr. Butler designe* to set sixty ihree Hives of Bees in a plotof ground of fifty foot square ( if any, faith he, be so happy toattaine this number, which 1 have much exceeded ) but I wouldrather advise to set your Hives if you have many, at a larger di-stance, ifyou have roome, whether upon single stooles, or uponbenches, namely, nor above sixteen, or at most twenty in arow ( still take notice to set them from East to West ) and threeor four rodds to the Southward, another row,and so according toyour numbers, or at double that distance ifyou have roome c»nough, for it ernnot otherwise but often fall out, that you shallhave manv swarme* rife together, or before you shall have Hivedthe fust,especially in a plentiful year,to yournolittle disturbance,: K - - and