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The ftory method can in no cafe be pre- 

 judicial, though the bees mould be prevented 

 thereby from fwarming : on the contrary, 

 it would be* a great advantage if it did fo ; 

 for then artificial fwarming would not be 

 wanted to perpetuate flocks, which would 

 be effected without fuch affiftance. Writers 

 have however followed each other, by af- 

 ferting that by ftorifying no fwarms will 

 rife. From long experience I am certain 

 of the reverfe. When duplets or triplets 

 do not fwarm, it is not from that caufe : it is 

 from abortions of the royal brood, and fe- 

 deral other cafualties. 



Nor is there any danger of being over- 

 Jlocked; for however numerous a Mock may 

 be in bees during fumme-r, in winter they 

 will be reduced to a quart. Befides which, 

 bad feafons often happen, and many acci- 

 dents arife that will require recruiting, and 

 which may be happily effected by forbear- 

 ing to double a good flock, and a fwarm will 

 be the fooner obtained. The following Est 1- 

 mate will fhow how far the advantage in- 

 clines to for if cation. 



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