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misery. The most exquisite inflictions of savage 

 barbarity have never equalled, in effect, the slow and 

 lingering tortures conferred upon unfortunate animals, 

 by the graces of a left-handed philanthropy. In fine, 

 let the bee-master make fair experiment of both the 

 methods, and then his election. I shall anon give 

 the common rules of both. 



Mr. Isaac, in his useful little tract, gives the fol- 

 lowing definition of a few APIARIAN TECHNICALITIES. 

 I copy them as being rather more precise than those 

 to which I have been generally accustomed. By 

 Colonies, are to be understood bees in double or 

 treble hives. Stocks designate bees generally, at the 

 end of the season. All bees, from the season of 

 hiving, till its conclusion at Michaelmas, are called 

 swarms ; subsequently, stocks, if in single hives ; 

 colonies, if in double. A swarm having thrown out a 

 swarm, becomes then a stock, although it may have 

 been hived but a few weeks. Such superabundant 

 swarming in this climate is disadvantageous. Swarm- 

 ing, generally, continues between two and three 

 weeks. 



Mr. Brown, of Renfrew, N.B. had a hive which 

 cast three swarms in 1807,- -Jive swarms in 1808, 

 three swarms in 1809, and four swarms in 1810, 

 the parent hive still in good strength. In 1826, Mr. 

 E. Day, of Coldblow farm, Hucking, took from four- 

 teen stocks of bees 576 Ibs. of honey. 



In the year 1814, imported in the Aurora, from 

 Papenberg, honey 41 casks, 68 cwts. 1 qr. 23 Ibs. In 

 another ship, 8424 Ibs. From Amsterdam, 4 hhds. 

 and 12 casks, 50 cwt. 2 qrs. 14 Ibs. 



