or more Bees, giue a lowd and seueral sound from the rest, and sometimes
Bees of greater bodies then the common sort: but what of all this? I
leane not on coniectures, but loue to set downe that I know to be true,
and leaue these things to them that loue to diuine. Keepe none weake,
for it is hazard, oftentimes with losse: Feeding will not helpe them:
for being weake, they cannot come downe to meate, or if they come downe,
they dye, because Bees weake cannot abide cold. If none of these, yet
will the other Bees being strong, smell the honey, and come and spoile,
and kill them. Some helpe is in casting time, to put two weake swarmes
together, or as M. _Markham_ well saith: Let not them cast late, by
raising them with wood or stone: but with impes (say I.) An impe is
three or foure wreathes, wrought as the hiue, the same compasse, to rase
the hiue withall: but by experience in tryall, I haue found out a better
way by Clustering, for late or weake swarmes hitherto not found out of
any that I know. That is this: After casting time, if I haue any stocke
proud, and hindered from timely casting, with former Winters pouerty,
or euill weather in casting time, with two handles and crookes, fitted
for the purpose, I turne vp that stocke so pestred with Bees, and set it
on the crowne, vpon which so turned with the mouth vpward, I place
another empty hiue well drest, and spelkt, into which without any
labour, the Swarme that would not depart, and cast, will presently
ascend, because the old Bees haue this qualitie (as all other breeding
creatures haue) to expell the young, when they haue brought them vp.

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There will the swarme build as kindely, as if they had of themselues
beene cast. But bee sure you lay betwixt the Hiues some straight and
cleanly sticke or stickes, or rather a boord with holes, to keepe them
asunder: otherwise they will ioyne their workes together so fast, that
they cannot be parted. If you so keepe them asunder at _Michael-tide_,
if you like the weight of your swarme (for the goodnesse of swarmes is
tryed by weight) so catched, you may set it by for a stocke to keepe.
Take heed in any case the combes be not broken, for then the other Bees
will smell the honey, and spoyle them. This haue I tryed to be very
profitable for the sauing of Bees. The Instrument hath this forme. The
great straight piece is wood, the rest are iron claspes and nailes, the
claspes are loose in the Stapes: Two men with two of these fast