in March, April, and May. i3t 
in May, if cold, mifty, or cloudy weather, 
continues for a few days, the bee-mafter 
fhould pay particular attention to his hives, 
left any of them fhould be in danger of fa~- 
mine ; for, at this period, the number of bees 
in each hive is greatly increafed, and of courfe 
they quickly confume the remains of their 
winter and {pring provifion, fo that even the 
very beft of hives will be in dangers When 
fuch weather occurs, therefore, in May or e- 
ven in June, let every hive get fome addition- 
al food, in order to prevent all danger of fa- 
mifhing, now that they are juft upon the brink’ 
of their honey harveft: For, as foon as the 
muftard bloffoms, and the white clover appear 
on the lees, they will make the very air to fmell 
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rotten eggs, and the moft decayed maggots, whereby I cleared 
the hive of a great nuifance, which I thought it would be much 
the better of wanting. But, im doing this; I found that the remov- 
al of fuch maffes of combs occafioned a large vacancy in the hive, 
and thereby made it colder. To remedy this defe@t, I have fome 
times put a piece of frefh comb in its place, in which I found the 
Queen foon laid eggs agains But'ftill, as in thefe combs, con- 
taining the decayed eggs and maggots, there could not be fewer 
than one third, or perhaps one half of live young, intermixed a- 
mong the abortions, which thus inevitably perifhed, I began to re- 
gret the lofs of fo many induftrious fervants thus deftroyed, when 
juft emerging into exiftence ; and have, therefore, now laid the 
practice almoft entirely afidey 
