124 SALVATION OF BEES. 



Befides, it is to be confidered, that the 

 eggs produced by the old queen of the flock, 

 not being, more than ufual, want not an 

 linufual number of workers to rear them ; 

 a greater number may poilibly be ufelefs, 

 or prejudicial by the increafe of confump- 

 tkm. Nor do they contribute to the pro- 

 duction of more early fwarms ; for that 

 depends on the early birth of princeffes, 

 in which the additional bees have no 

 fhare. 



The truth of the facl is further confirmed 

 by experiments on flocks that have the bees 

 of other hives united to them, but which 

 proved neither move forward nor more, pro- 

 ductive than fmgle ones hived in the com- 

 mon way, not only of my own, but of 

 neighbours. 



On the contrary, storied flocks, in the 

 fame feafon, were abundantly more pro- 

 fperous, 'having provided themfelves with 

 means iufficienf for their own profperity, 

 in a fucceffion of peace and plenty, and 

 without the cruel nccejjiiy pr trouble of ' fuffo- 

 c at ion by fjre and brimftone. 



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