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1828. This hive will remain in the situation of a two- 
storied hive, for a whole year, from the 21st of March, 
1828, to the 21st of March, 1829. In proportion as the 
population of the simple hive was abundant, and the season 
favourable, the Scottish hive will, in its year, send out one 
or two strong swarms. In the spring of 1829, this colony 
will be twenty-one months old: nine months a simple hive, _ 
and one year a Scottish hive. a; 
Sd. The pyramidal hive. This commences when the 
swarm is twenty-one months old, on the 21st March, 
1829, by putting a third box under the Scottish hive. 
These three panniers or boxes are luted at their junc- 
tures, in such manner, that they appear to form one 
single hive; and the bees can pass in and out only by a 
single opening on the bench. By means of the holes, from 
an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half diameter, on 
the tops of the under and middle. boxes, there is a free 
communication for the bees from one box to another. 
This colony will remain in this pyramidal or three- 
storied hive, from the 2ist of March to the 21st of Sep- 
tember of the same year: it will then be only twenty-seven 
months old. It will have furnished many swarms, as well 
in its grade of Scottish, as in that of the pyramidal hive. 
The swarms of the latter will be very considerable; they 
commonly weigh from twelve to twenty pounds, of sixteen 
ounces. 
On or about the 21st of September, (sooner or later,) the 
neuters destroy the drones. Then the upper box may be 
removed, and it will be found full of wax and honey, with- 
out bee, chrysalis, larva, egg, or exuviz of any kind. The 
honey will be the produce of the current year, for the bees 
have consumed that of the years preceding: nothing but 
the wax will be old, for the first made combs still remain. 
When the upper box is removed at the time specified, 
the hive will cease to be pyramidal, and will be reduced to 
the Scottish, or a hive of two stories. It will remain the six 
months of autumn and spring, in this state of Scottish hive; 
but at the return of spring,a third pannier or bex is added, and 
then it resumes the name of pyramidal. Thus, from year to 
year, in continued succession, in each spring, an empty box 
or pannier is put under the Scottish hive; and each autumn, 
a full one is taken off the pyramidal hive. It is an annual 
and periodical harvest, for which there is no dread of hail 
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