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est effect of the sun’s heat, I did not let any more light 
into the interior of the boxes, than was necessary for the 
circulation of the air. I only left small apertures, at pro- 
per distances between the boxes and the stands, through 
which strange bees could not enter, nor the new born bees 
get out. 
When the couvain is entirely hatched, and the colonies 
in full strength, the boxes may be replaced in their former - 
position in the apiary, and the necessary openings made, 
for the egress of the young bees, whose instinct will lead 
them out to forage in the fields. 
Each family, thus re-established, is a new swarm, and 
ought to succeed better than ordinary swarms; because it 
is supplied with waxen combs in perfection, and nothing 
remains to be done, but to supply with honey and couvain 
the cells which the mother colony had made before it 
perished. 
_ Fifteen or twenty days after this sort of resurrection, if 
the weather be fine, and the bees appear to work with ar- 
dour, a second box may be placed under, and it will become 
Scottish, and in the spring following, it will be in a state 
to become pyramidal, and the upper box, or pannier, may 
be removed with its contents, in the autumn of the same 
year. ® 
’ This hive will afterwards yield, annually, a harvest of a 
pannier, or box, full of wax and honey, without bees or 
couvain, besides one or more swarms. 
I am convinced that the farmers would gain more than 
they would lose, if they would not destroy the combs of 
the bees which have perished, even in autumn or winter, 
but to use the boxes, with the combs in them, to receive 
other swarms, in spring or summer, either by putting them 
‘under or over other hives, according to circumstances, and 
the form of the hive, as I have already practised and be- 
fore observed. 
It is no longer to be doubted that couvain does exist in 
the combs of these hives, formed and fecundated before 
the destruction of the drones, and that it will naturally 
hatch on the return of warm weather. 
Though all the couvain found in the cells be not fecun- 
dated, (which may be the case,) because some may have 
been laid after the destruction of the drones, yet these are 
worth preserving, because they will be fecundated by the 
drones:of the hive to which they will be united. 
