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fore the number of thofe who are occupied 

 in collecting honey is not near fo great as 

 has been imagined. 



A good Jlorijier that has not fwarmed, or 

 has had the fwarm returned, will increafe 

 thirty pounds in feven days, in a favourable 

 iituation and feafon : whereas a fingle-hived 

 {lock in the fame apiary and feafon, that 

 has fwarmed, will not increafe above five 

 pounds in the fame time. For every fwarm, 

 the leaft as well as the greateft, is provided 

 with a queen, equal in fecundity to the 

 queen of the largeft ftock ; and as the brood 

 fhe brings continually demands the labour 

 and attendance of probably near half the 

 bees; this circumftance renders the other 

 moiety, from the fmallnefs of their number^ 

 unable to accumulate a large quantity of 

 honey in the ihort time it moftly abounds. 

 Whereas, by doubling, and trebling the 

 hives, the bees are never at a ftand for room 

 to extend their combs, as faft as requifite for 

 honey or brood. 



Bees, confidered individually, live about 

 a year, progreffively coming into birth, and 

 as gradually decaying. It hence follows, 



that 



