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are converted into honey in their first stomach, as in O1 
bees; but they never deposite this honey in the comn 
stock. It passes into the second stomach, where it 
comes wax, as in the queen bee, and which they likes 
disgorge by the mouth. They (the drones) cons 
great deal of aliments, and as these are all converte 
wax, in the second stomach, the materials for making cor 
and cells, never fail in the hive, during the six months 
their existence. | wee et 
I have destroyed thousands of drones, in their ingr 
and egress to and from the hive, for the purpose of e: 
ining their intestines. I have rarely found any honey 
particles of wax more or less elaborated. — he 
‘The drones never go*abroad but in-good weather, | 
tween noon and five or six o’clock in the evening; and 
is presumable, that when they are not abroad, they 
the expense of the community, on the common stock. — 
- When a hive swarms, a certain number of drones ac 
company the new colony, in proportion to the number 
neuters, for the purpose of fecundating the eggs whic 
young queen may lay, during the remainder of the seas 
but they must perish as their fathers did, as soon as th 
become a charge to the colony. be 
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CHAPTER V. 
OF THE SIMPLE HIVE. ad ’ 
The simple or common hive, is a box or pannier, ¢ 
taining a swarm of bees, as they are usually cultivated 
the country. This ‘hive will produce swarms for ma’ 
succeeding years, and for this reason are held in high 
teem by old’ plodding farmers, who know nothing 1 
profitable than the produce of swarms. They therefi 
preserve this old hive as long as possible; but as soon 
is suspected of decay, it is condemned to plunder, evil 
death, the next succeeding autumn. 
_ To destroy a family entirely, and dispose of all its P 
duce, brimstone smoke is usually employed. The b 26 
suffocated by the vapour, immediately die. The lar 
will, ‘soon after, perish also; but the eggs, which before’ 
they are hatched are not affected; by the smoke, are melted. 
