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enough to fupport themfelves in the win- 

 ter. 



Empty combs placed in a duplet will not 

 entice them the fooner to work therein ; for 

 till the hive is completely full, and they are 

 in want of others, they will not afcend, 

 which in bad feafons may not happen for a 

 confiderable time : neverthelefs, from being 

 ready, they may be of confiderable advan- 

 tage. 



About the tenth of July the upper dears 

 of all ftoried frocks mould be clofed, to in- 

 duce the queen with more certainty to de- 

 fcend, and breed in the lower hive, except it 

 is dejignedto be taken ; for then the door is to 

 be fhut, and the upper one opened. 



It often happens that in poor Jituations, or 

 in a long feafon of very inclement weather^ 

 neither duplets nor triplets will have work 

 therein ; and this is not imputable to a bad 

 method of management, or want of con- 

 duel:, but wholly to a failure of the refources 

 of pafturage, or of opportunities to gather 

 it ; which fometimes has been fo great as to 

 prevent the generality of ftocks from pro- 

 curing a fufficiency for their own winter's 

 F 3 fupply. 



