128 - Dzireétions how to manage Bees 
will immediately give over working as foon as 
the young in the cells are fealed up; and one 
may wait an hour at the hive without feeing a 
loaded bee enter it. The bees then confume 
their own honey faft, and an uncommon num- 
ber of them generally croud about the entry: 
And if the hive has been long without a Queen, 
upon turning it up, and fearching for maggots 
in the cells, they will be found quite empty. 
As foon as thefe melancholy figns are obferv~ _ 
ed, the owner fhould dire@tly take out all the 
bees, and unite them with thofe of fome other 
hive, that has few bees in it, the manner of 
doing which will be afterwards mentioned : 
and if the hive be young, it may be kept to | : 
put a young {warm into, but if old, the honey 
fhould be laid afide for ufe. 
Sometimes, in fpring, I have found, in parti- 
cular cells in hives, a confiderable number. of 
young that, from fome caufe or other, had de- 
cayed and never come to perfection, as men-_ 
tioned, page 64. I have fometimes obferved 
the number of thefe fo great, that in one comb, 
containing perhaps 600 young bees, the one 
half would have been in this ftate in the cells. 
The efHuvia proceeding from thefe abortive 
productions, gave the hive a favour by no 
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