Alexandria Daily Advertiser

INCREASE OF BEES.

The following easy method without destroying the bees communicated to the editor of the Gazette by a respectable Frenchman who adopted it throughout France when the bees are quietly lodged of the evening approach the hive and turn it are in the it quietly gently at dusk lodged of the evening steadily placed it in a small pit previously dug to receive it with its bottom covered with a clean new hive, which [with straw and sod?] romantic herbs

the mouth of each hive to the other, so that no aperture remains, between them, take a small stick and beat gently round the sides of the lower hive for about 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour, in which time the bees will leave their cells in the lower hive and ascend and adhere to the upper one. Then gently lift the new hive with all its little tenants, and place it on the stand from whence the other hive was taken. This should be done some time in the week preceding midsummer day; that the bees may have time before the summer flowers are faded, to lay in a new stock of honey, which they will not fail to do for their subsistence through the winter. As many as have the humanity and good sense to adopt this practice, will find their reward in the increase of their stock and their valuable produce.