Of the Artificial Swarming of Bees. 1 79 
muft be an additional lofs of other 18 days, 
before the eggs can be bees for any ufe, it is 
evident, that the beft part of the honey feafon 
will be over, and confequently that by autumn, 
‘the hive will be greatly deficient in bees. For 
thefe reafons I have now almoft entirely given 
up the practice, though I have fometimes had 
hives that profpered very welf under it. And, 
indeed, if I intended to kill a hive of bees in 
_ autumn, I would rather prefer the taking away 
_ their Queen from them about the end of July, 
and leaving a great number of common bees in 
the hive, which, as they would have few bees 
to nurfe up, would collect a greater quantity of 
honey in that period, than if they had a Queen 
in the hive daily laying eggs for them, which 
_ would employ a good number of the bees, both 
to hatch and nurfe up the young, and the re- 
by, the fewer would be employed in collecting 
Neney, . 7 
Case VIII. Ifa fwarm fhould come off, which 
- the mother hive cannot afford to want without 
- great injury, it ought to be returned again into 
the old hive, in this manner: Take the Queen 
from the new fwarm and confine her in a box; 
and then turn up the hive containing the new 
fwarm, and place it before the entry of the old 
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