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" the old queen is taken away till the young 

 " one is fit to lay eggs, will be twenty-five 

 " days; during which fpace not a fingle 

 64 egg can be laid. To which add eighteen 

 44 days more, before the eggs can be of any 

 " fervice. It is evident that the beft part 

 " of the honey feafon will be over, and 

 " confequently, by autumn, the hive cannot 

 " be replenifhed with bees. If I intend to 

 44 kill a hive of bees in autumn, it feems 

 44 beft to take away the queen at the end of 

 eS July, leaving a great number of bees in 

 * 4 the hive, which, having but few bees to 

 44 nurfe up, would collecl; a greater quantity 

 44 of honey in that period, than if they had 

 44 a queen to lay eggs."- — - — 



" In the fpring, having two hives that 

 " had but few bees in each, I put the bees 

 " of one hive into the other, fufpecting, as 

 44 they had both bred flowly, there might 

 44 be a defed in one of the queens ; and 

 44 hoping that, by putting them together, 

 44 the lead healthy would have been killed ; 

 64 but the workers of both hives kindly 

 44 united. On turning up the hives twenty 

 44 minutes after, I perceived a few bees cluf- 



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