in March, April, and May. 1 
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numerous in the hives; and, about the begin- 
ning of May, when the furze and broom, 
and many other flowers, make the fields look 
yellow, a {trong hive of bees will be all yellow 
loaded ; and, at fuch a period, in a fine day, 
I have counted 100 loaded bees go into one 
hive in a few minutes. 
When the hives are all equally good, ‘this 
bees carry much alike, but in proportion to 
‘their number. In an apiary, where there are 
four hives, one will perhaps have twenty en- 
tering into it, in five minutes ; another fifty, a 
third ninety, and the fourth a hundred and 
twenty, all within the fame fpace of time. But 
in the height of the honey feafon, the bees carry 
amazingly faft, running out and in to the hive 
with the moft furprifing celerity and expedi- 
tion. At this period, the number of loaded bees 
conftantly flocking into the hive, as well as their 
rapidity, defies all power of calculation; for 
although they labour with great affiduity and 
conftancy before this feafon, yet they do, not 
appear to work with fuch incredible quicknefs, 
as after.the honey feafon commences §. _ 
if 
§ In fpring, as the bees gradually increafe in numbers, their 
entry fhould be gradually widened, left they fhould be im- 
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