BEE. 
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uniform, and may be termed simple existence, till 
the warm weather arrives again. As they now 
subsist on their summer’s industry, they would 
•seem to feed in proportion to the coldness of the 
season; for from experiment, I found the hive 
.grow lighter in a cold week, than it did in a 
.warmer, which led to further experiments. I first 
made an experiment upon a bee hive, to ascer- 
tain the quantity of honey lost through the winter. 
The hive was put into the scale November the 3d, 
1776. 
November lOth 
OZ, 
it had lost 2 
drams. 
7 
17 th 
4 
- 24 th 
3 
71 
December 1 st 
8 
2 
8th 
2 
1 
15 th 
5 
2 
22d 
4 
3 
29th 
5 
4 
. January 1st 
2 
5 
1 2th 
5 
2 
19 th 
3 
4 
26th 
3 
14 
February 2d 
— ^ 5 
0 
9th 
T ^ 
0 
The whole 72 14 - 
Although an indolent state is very much the 
condition of bees through the winter, yet progress 
is making in the queen towards a summer’s in- 
crease. The eggs in the oviducts are beginning 
