Useful Method of Preserving Bees, Lately Adopted in America

USEFUL METHOD OF PRESERVING BEES, LATELY ADOPTED IN AME-
                                                       RICA.
INSTEAD of destroying whole swarms
in their hives to get the honey when
the hives are full, they clear them out in-
to a fresh hive, while they take the combs
out of the old one; and they prevent
their perishing in winter by putting a 
great quantity of honey into a very wide
earthen vessel, covering its surface with
paper, exactly fitted on, and pricked full
of holes by a large pin; this being pressed
by the weight of the bees, keeps a fresh
supply continually rising. Their most fa-
tal destruction, by severe cold, they pre-
vent, by taking as many large tubs as they
have hives, and knocking out the heads
they set the other end in the ground, lay-
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ing a bed of dry earth or chopped hay in
it of six inches deep, over this they place
the head knocked out; they then make a 
small wooden trough for the passage of the
bees, this is transfixed through a hole cut
though each side of the tub, at such a
height as to lay on the false bottom, on
which is placed the covered dish of honey
for the food of the bees, leaving a proper
space over this covered with strong mat-
ting; they then fill up the tub with more
dry earth, or chopped hay, heaping it up 
in the shape of a cone to keep out the rain
and wreathing it with straw on account of 
the warmth.