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either by suspending the floor-board, or resting the hives 

 thereon, with pins at the corners, are decidedly far pre- 

 ferable to those on any other plan. The moth-worm, _ 

 when having free and uninterrupted sway in a hive, 

 rich in wax and honey, grows to a large size, sometimes 

 being an inch long, and as large as a pipe-stem. A quart 

 of such worms will often occupy a single hive, before 

 all the bees will depart. 



INDICATIONS or THE MOTH BEST COURSE TO PURSUE. 



Every apiarian should closely watch his hives during 

 the months of July and August, and any that show 

 signs of the existence of the moth therein, should be at- 

 tended to without delay, as the whole apiary might be- 

 come infested by this pest, arising from a lodgment in a 

 single hive. Every worm, after a few days, must wind 

 up in a cocoon ; from which, a winged moth-miller is- 

 sues, able to produce a thousand eggs, each egg to pro- 

 duce a worm, which, in turn, produces a miller, and so 

 on until a million of worms may exist in one season, 

 from a solitary insect! If the family be weak, and the 

 hive full of combs, where the moth exists, the quicker 

 the combs are cut out, and the bees dispersed the better ; 

 or the bees may be driven into a super, by the aid of 

 smoke, and then placed in a clean hive and fed, if the 

 honey season be past, and they will probably survive 

 the winter, if there be a moderate family, and the next 

 season they will replenish the hive in numbers, and be as 

 valuable as any in the apiary. Another way, is to join 

 the infected family to a weak one, that is not yet sub- 



