108 THE HIST-ORY. OF BEES. 
HK BBANSS GEOR. FH KOPN, GRANID FH 
Gl GOD ea! bead eat! GR? fat 
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"Of the Swarming and Hiving of Bees.’ 
vy HE principal reafon why they {warm is 
G “ the want of room. Therefore in co- 
zc lonies, where they are not at all ftrait- 
Wee SS ened, they feldom or never fwarm, 
(fays Mr. Ru/den) thro’ diftafte, difturbance,. 
&¢ or mifmanagement. | 
«<< And in hives they fwarm not merely for want of 
‘room, without other concurring circumftances ; fuch 
<¢ as a king inreadinefs ; multitude of fubjects, prof- 
-& peét of plenty; together with weather, which is in- 
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$6 viting. 
Every fwarm is compofed of all the three forts, wiz. 
a Queen, great numbers of common Bees, both old and 
"young, and Drones, whofe numbers are uncertain ; fome 
fwarms have more of thefe than others. Dr. Butler is 
of opinion, that thofe {warms which have moft Drones 
will moft furely profper, but I doubt it, till I fee it pro- 
ved. 
The multitude of fwarms does not predi& or promife 
the profperity of an apiary. -Witnefs the laft fummer 
in which I had no lefs than 86 or 87 fwarms; a confide- 
gable number of which at A4@ichaelmas, had not honey | 
half enough to maintain them till the fpring, The, 
