SGI ere a 
or frost, and on this account, is more certain than that of — 
‘our cereal plants, our vineyards, or meadows. = 
The pyramidal hive will not always require twenty-one 
months for its construction, nor twenty months, to produce — 
a good harvest. here are circumstances when thirteen 
months will suffice to establish the hive, and sometimes. — 
_even to take the harvest, as will be demonstrated in the — 
following chapter. by 
“We ought not to hesitate to add a third pannier to the — 
Scottish hive, in the spring, even though the bees seem not 
to need it; inasmuch as they may not have constructed — 
any combs in the lower story,.and at the time you add the — 
third, there may be two. empty boxes below. These two — 
panniers or boxes, will remain empty but a short time: the — 
third will scarcely be placed, before the bees will descend — 
from the first, into the second or middle story; and the room 
afforded in the lower story, relieves the colony from the — 
encumbrance occasioned by a crowd, and which would — 
prevent the bees from working so promptly and conve- " 
niently as. is necessary. +e 
Bees, in a pyramidal hive, never perish from want or — 
cold. They are too rich to be destitute of food, and too — 
numerous to feel the inconvenience of the most severe — 
winters. When they are grouped together, they enjoy all — 
the warmth necessary, and on the return of spring, the | 
couvain is hatched nearly a month sooner than in other — 
hives. , (5 a 
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CHAPTER IX. 
OF THE PYRAMIDAL HIVE IN FULL HARVEST AT THIRTEEN 
MONTHS OLD. : 
EN Ni Si Sag Ce OS aie Fe a 
© When a swarm comes off from a pyramidal hive, in 
May, June, or even before the 15th of July, in countries. 4 
where the buck or black wheat is cultivated, the pannier — 
or box in which the young colony is collected, is usually 
filled with combs in fifteen days; and all the cells are — 
supplied with eggs by the queen, as soon as they are pre- 
pared. These eggs are regularly fecundated by the drones 
and soon, an infinite number of worms may be observed 
ready to be metamorphosed into nymphs; and_ these 
