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not possessed by the common hive ; neither does the 

 common hive offer such advantages to the moth, by 

 affording such snug quarters for worms to spin their 

 cocoons, when they cannot be destroyed without con- 

 siderable trouble. 



NON-SWABMEES. 



Here I will endeavor to be brief; I feel anxious 

 to get through with this disagreeable part, where 

 every word I say will clash with somebody's in- 

 terest or prejudice. The merits of this hive, are to 

 obtain surplus honey with but little trouble, which 

 often succeeds in satisfying people of its utility. The 

 principal objection is found on the score of profit. 

 Suppose we start with one, call it worth five dollars 

 in the beginning, at the end of ten years it is worth no 

 more, very likely n,ot as much, (the - chances of its 

 failing, short pf that time, we will not take into the 

 account ;) we might get annually, say five, dollars 

 worth of surplus honey, amounting to fifty dollars. 



CONTRAST OP PROFIT. 



The swarming hive, we suppose, will throw off one 

 swarm annually, and make us one dollar's worth of 

 surplus honey, (we will not reckon that yielded by the 

 first swarm, which is often more than that from the 

 old stocks,) about one third of the average in good 

 seasons. The second year there will be two to do the 

 same ; ta,ke this rate for ten years, we have 512 stocks, 

 either of them worth as much as the non-swarmer, 

 and about a thousand dollars worth of surplus honey. 



