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It is furprifing, that the falvatlon of the 

 brood has never been noticed ; although 

 every one, on taking combs out at this fea- 

 fon, might have obferved brood therein, in 

 their feveral ftages of maggots, or nymphs, 

 and often of eggs. Regardlefs thereof, they 

 are mafhed indifcriminately with the honey- 

 combs ; thus greatly injuring its quality by 

 fuch ill-judged conduct. 



In the Jiorled method^ inftead of the gene- 

 ral deprivation of duplets in Augujl^ I appre- 

 hend, for the reafons above affigned, it will 

 be eligible to defer it to the latter end of 

 September, or the beginning of Octo- 

 ber ; or till the weather is too cool for the 

 bees to work much out ; by which time all 

 or mod of the brood will have been ma- 

 tured, and have left their cells, without the 

 rifk of deftroying any of them : befides the 

 advantage of performing the operation with 

 more eafe, fafety, and fatisfa&ion ; as at 

 that time, from having neither brood nor 

 princefs, the bees will quit the duplet, when 

 feparated, in a 'few hours, of themfelves, 

 without fuming. 



In wet and cold feafons, honey-gathering 



