Wee cherish none in trees, but set our hiues somewhere on the warmest side of the house, prouiding that they may stand drie and without danger both of the mouse and moth.
Our hiues are made commonlie of rie straw, and wadled about with bramble quarters: but some make the same of wicker, and cast them ouer with claie.
Wée cherish none in trées, but set our hiues somewhere on the warmest side of the house, prouiding that they may stand drie and without danger both of the mouse and moth.
I discommend them not: but straw Hiues are in vse with vs, and I thinke with all the world, which I commend for nimblenesse, closenesse, warmnesse and drinesse.
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.
And though your Hiues stand within an hand breadth the one of another: yet will Bees know their home.
The elder your hiues are, the worse is your honey.
Mice are no lesse hurtfull, and the rather to hiues of straw: and therefore couerings of straw draw them.
Our Housewife, if she be the Keeper of her owne Bees (as she had need to be) may with her bare hand in the heate of the day, safely destroy them in the hiues mouth.
In this Frame may your Bees stand drye and warme, especially if you make doores like doores of windows to shroud them in winter, as in an house: prouided you leaue the hiues mouths open.
I my self haue deuised such an house, and I find that it keeps and strengthens my Bees much, and my hiues will last sixe to one.
But how these hiues ought aptly to be prepared, shall hereafter bée taught in the sixtéenth Chapiter.
And the mouthes of the hiues ought to stand somwhat stiper than the back part, leaste rain beating in, might not lightly run out again by their entry or hole.
Nowe thus prepared & in a readinesse, open the hiues first of the Bées, about the .
Booke of his Naturall Historie, that the hiues ought to be annointed about with the iuyce of the herb named Balme.
But if neither of those fashioned Hiueslike you, then may you make the Hiues of the woodde of a hollowe trée, or of light bourdes made square, and stowpyng somewhat afore.
Where theHiues of Bees ought especially to be placed.
Which are the best and fittest Hiues for the Honny Bees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hiues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
