130 Directions how to manage Bees 
appear in a number of them, then it is certain 
that the brood is going backward. 
If fuch a hive has but few bees, it will be pro- 
per to unite them with another hive ; but if it 
has a confiderable number of bees, they fhould 
be allowed to continue to work on, in the beft 
way they can, till the beginning of June, when 
the ftrong hives begin to lay out; at which ~ 
time a great number of common bees fhould 
be taken from one or two of them, to re-inforce 
that hive with, in the manner that fhall be-af- 
terwards pointed out.. I have feen a hive, with 
a vaft number of fuch rotten eggs and decay- 
ed maggots in it, in April, which, when allow- 
ed to remain till June, and being re-inforced 
with frefh bees, would have turned out a fine 
thriving hive before autumn 3 although ma- 
ny of the decayed eggs and maggots would 
have ftill been in it: For I believe fome fuch a- 
bortions may contintie in a hive for years, per- 
haps with little detriment to the bees ; for they 
in time dry up, and wither away in the cells, 
and their bad favour gradually goes of Such 
hives, however, fhould always be taken in au- 
tumn; and their bees united to more thriving 
' hives. * x 
One In 
* Formerly { ufed to cut out the combs containing the mof 
rotten 
