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the suffocating system, ten hives will produce thirty pounds 
of honey each, which amount to three hundred pounds; and 
the proprietor will have twelve young hives—that is, ten 
composed of the first swarms, and two of the second and 
third ; or, in other words, the honey will amount to £22 10s., 
and the hives to £12. In order to facilitate the calcula- 
tion, I suppose that each hive gives but one swarm in the 
year. Now, although these two species of profit, as well in 
honey as in hives, appear to the two proprietors to amount 
to nearly the same sum in money, a considerable difference 
is still to be remarked; for, in the first case, the public 
profit only by one hundred and twenty pounds of honey for 
their consumption, and the proprietor has realized only £9 
in money; whereas, in the second case, the public are put in 
possession of three hundred pounds of honey, and the pro- 
prietor has realized £22 10s. in money. 
“‘ Moreover, it must not be supposed that in the following 
years the benefit of the first proprietor will far exceed that 
of the second, by the greater multiplication of his hives: 
this would be tantamount to a voluntary concealment of 
the frequent and almost general mortality occasioned by 
the method of removing the bees from one hive to another, 
and which will indubitably reduce every year the great 
number of hives of the first proprietor to a number below 
that remaining to the second, by which we may be assured 
that the annual profits of the former, so far from being 
more considerable than those of the latter, will always be 
much smaller. This method, therefore, of removing the 
bees into other hives, after the departure of the first swarm, 
is neither advantageous to the proprietor nor to the pub- 
fig.?? 
Now, on the other hand, although the ideas of M. La 
Grenée may be founded in truth, and are the result of his 
practical observations, still others have had different experi- 
ences, and offer many arguments in favor of the mode he so 
