88 * HIVES. 



from each ; but two had added any new comb, and 

 these but little. If these hives had been filled to. the 

 bottom with comb in the, spring, it is very doubtful 

 whether either of them would have swarme^. The 

 only place we can put a good stock and not expect it 

 to swarm in good seasons, is inside a building, where it 

 is perfectly dark, and even here a few have been 

 known to do it. If we could manage to get a very 

 large hive filled with combs, it would perhaps be as 

 good a preventive as any. All the bees that could be 

 reared in one season, would have sufficient room in the 

 combs ready made for their labors, and there would be 

 no necessity for their emigration. " But what be- 

 comes of all the bees raised in the course of several 

 years ?" To this question I shall not probably be able 

 to give a satisfactory answer at present. 



BEES DO NOT INCKBASE, IF TULL, APTEE THE miST YEAR, IN 

 SAME HIVE. 



I only will notice the fact, that the bees somehow 

 disappear, and there is no more at the end of five years 

 than at the end of one. A stock of bees may contain 

 6000 the first of May, and raise 20,000 in the course of 

 the year ; by the first of the next May, as a general 

 thing, not one more will be found, even when no 

 Bwarm had issued. 



gillmore's system doubted. 

 Now this fact is not known by a recent patentee 

 from the State of Maine, (else he supposes others do 

 not,) as he recommends placing bees in a house, and 



