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dark waters of affliction, and manfully buffeting with their 

 tumultuous waves, meanly resign themselves to their ignoble 

 fule, and sink and perish, where they might have lived and 

 triumphed; and douhle shame upon those who thus "faint 

 in the day of adversity," when living in a Christian land, 

 they might, if they would only receive the word of God, and 

 open the eye of faith, behold a bow of promise spanning the 

 still stormy clouds, and hear a voice bidding them, like the 

 great apostle of the Gentiles, learn not merely to " rejoice in 

 hope of the glory of God," but to " glory in tribulations also." 



I have been informed by Mr. Wagner, that Dzierzon has 

 recently devised a plan of making nuclei, substantially the 

 same with my own. His book, however, contemplates hav- 

 ing two Apiaries, three or four miles apart, and his plans for 

 multiplying colonies, as there described, were based upon the 

 supposition that the Apiarian has two such establishments. 

 Such an arrangement would no doubt very greatly facilitate 

 many operations. Our forced swarms might all be removed 

 from the Apiary where they were formed, to the other, and 

 our nuclei treated in the same way, and there would be no 

 necessity for confining the bees after their removal. There 

 are however, weighty objections to such an arrangement, 

 which will prevent it, at least for some time, from being ex- 

 tensively adopted. The labor and expense of removing the 

 bees backwards and forwards, is a serious objection to the 

 whole plan ; and in addition to this, the necessity of having 

 a skillful Apiarian at each establishment, unfits it for the 

 purposes of most persons who keep bees. It might answer, 

 however, if two bee-keepers, sufficiently far apart, would 

 enter into partnership, and manage their bees as a joint 

 concern. 



Those who cannot remove their bees, and who from 

 timidity, are desirous of forming their artificial swarms in 

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