I38 DEPRIVATION. 



ber of bees it contains ; which at that time 

 confume a great deal in a little time, and 

 confequently prove an abfolute lofs. This 

 is meant of ftocks taken the common way to 

 he dejlroyed. What hive honey they have 

 eaten can be of no profit, when the bees 

 themfelves are foon to be killed. 



But this is not the cafe in the story 

 method, the bees of which are always 

 faved ; and therefore no difadvantage can 

 arife from their ftanding. For if a duplet 

 that has flood be taken after having eaten 

 a good part of the honey, it has faved a like 

 quantity of the flock's, which they would 

 have confumed, had they flaid on. 



At the ufual feafon of deprivation there 

 is generally much brood, whofe preferva- 

 tion is of much importance : for, coming 

 into birth fo late in the feafon, they will 

 furvive through the next fummer, till the ho- 

 ney harveft terminates. 'This brood, thus pre- 

 ferred, is of more worth than twenty times the 

 number of promifcuous bees, taken from a flock, 

 and incorporated with another', even if the 

 ftock fhould profper, which is very doubt- 

 ful, as experience verifies. 



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