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duced young queens, from mere fragments of the 

 combs, &c. &c. This novel and wonderful doc- 

 trine excited no little contention and counter-expe- 

 rimenting among naturalifts on the continent, with- 

 out being decided even by the great Bonnet. For 

 eight years have I alfo, with great attention and 

 minutenefs, endeavoured to fucceed, by Schirachian 

 rules ; but in the many effays and variations, I never 

 once found fuch a refult as Schirach defcribes. He 

 ajferts^ (which is indeed the grand proof) that the 

 praSlke of this art has already extended itfelf 

 through Upper Lufatia, the Palatinate, Bohemia, 

 Bavaria, Silefia, and fevcral other parts of Ger- 

 many, and even of Poland. And yet, furprizing 

 as it may feem, in Britain we have made no fuch 

 fimilar improvement, at lead, that has come under 

 my notice. 



I would not ceafe purfuing the experiment, were 

 I certain of the above fa6t, and that thereby a 

 larger quantity of honey and wax has been obtained 

 than by the ufual methods before pra6tifed in thofe 

 countries: for a greater number of ftocks only will 

 not be conclufive. It is the real profit, and not the 

 fliew, that we look for. 



My humble requeft, therefore, to the Society is, 

 that if they have formed, or can form a corre- 



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