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The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, 

 Delivering o'er to executors pale 

 The lazy, yawning drone." 



We find ruin, desolation, Avorms and filth. Huber and Bev- 

 an both remark that the moth is more likely to attack old 

 swarms than ne>w ; but we have had more damage done to new 

 swarms than old ones by this pest. A few years since we put 

 a good swarm in a hive, and examined them every day (as 

 should always be the case.) In about ten days, discovering 

 indications of the moth, we immediately opened the hive at the 

 bottom, and destroyed a number of worms ; by doing this every 

 morning for a week we succeeded in getting rid of them, and 

 the hive has ever since been prosperous, and we believe they 

 could be exterminated in this way. But by using the hive 

 which we shall describe hereafter, the bee-keeper need have 

 no fears of the moth. As we remarked previously, the neglect 

 to swarm ofiers no objection to bee-keeping, for we can now 

 multiply our swarms indefinately, whether the bees are inclined 

 to swarm or not, and although it is a pleasant sight to the bee- 

 keeper to stand by a hive and see the bees crowding out to 

 swarm, and filling the air with their merry gambols. 



" See where with hurried step the impassioned thi-ong 



Pace o'er the hive, and seem with plaintive song 



To invite their loitering Queen ; now range the floor, 



Arid hang in clustered columns from the door ; 



Or now in restless rings around they fly, — 



No spoil they sip, nor load the hollowed thigh. 



E'en the dull drone his wonted e»se gives o'er. 



Flaps the unwieldy wing, and longs to soar ; 



Up mounts the chief, and to the cheated eye 



Ten thousand shuttles dart along the sky ; 



As swift through ether rise the rushing swarms, 



Gay dancing to the beam their sunbright forms ; 



And each thin form still lingering on the sight 



Trails, as it shoots, a line of silver Mght. 



High poised on buoyant wing, the thoughtful Queen 



In gaze attentive views the varied scene ; 



And soon her far-fetched ken discerns below 



