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Rh for the buying, removing and managemenent of Bees.

O store yourfelf, there are three manner of ways; either by buying them, taking wild, or making them by art. If you buy your observe they be lively, little, smooth and shining; rejecting the rough and unseemly ones, and  all, let the king, or master-bee, be long, inning. and chearful not too great or too small for his  depends the welfare of the whole  Observe, likewise, that the swarm be whole and great, which you may know by looking into the, or observing great numbers cluftering about  door: if these two observations fail, finding them  at rest, blow in amongst them, and by the greatness of smallness of the answering found, you will  them to be more or less. If you transport far, the change of the air many times incomodes them; to remedy which you must let them in  gardens, or scatter sweet smelling herbs  their hives. The best way to carry them is a man's shoulders in  upon a pole; one  behind, and the other before, in the  when they are at rest, being very cautious of  them for fear of mashing their comb; and   time to remove is in the month of April;  sure you carry them not from a pleasant place  one that is otherwise, for if you do, they will  leave you. When you have brought them to place you intend, if it be day time, you must  open nor place them till night, to the end  s the quiet   the night, they may   to work the next, ; and be   observe them narrowly for two or three days