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(Gemini), about the 21st of May in the following 

 year, when they begin to decline, and from 

 (Cancer to Leo) June 21st to August 21st, the 

 ground in front of the apiary may be seen strewed 

 with them, some dead, some dying, and a few 

 alive but incapable of rising again, and by (Libra) 

 22d September, scarcely an old bee will be left." 



