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HIVES. 
from each ; but two had added any new comb, and 
these but little. If these hives had been filled to the 
bottom with comb in the spring, it is very doubtful 
whether either of them would have swarmed. The 
only place we can put a good stock and not expect it 
to swarm in good seasons, is inside a building, where it 
is perfectly dark, and even here a few have been 
known to do it. If we could manage to get a very 
large hive filled with combs, it would perhaps be as 
good a preventive as any. All the bees that? could be 
reared in one season, would have sufficient room in the 
combs ready made for their labors, and there would be 
no necessity for their emigration. “ But what be- 
comes of all the bees raised in the course of several 
years?” To this question I shall not probably be able 
to give a satisfactory answer at present. 
BEES DO NOT INCREASE, IF FULL, AFTER THE FIRST \ EAR, IN 
SAME HIVE. 
I only will notice the fact, that the bees somehow 
disappear, and there is no more at the end of five ^eais 
than at the end of one. A stock of bees may contain 
6000 the first of May, and raise 20,000 in the course of 
the year ; by the first of the next May, as a general 
thing, not one more will be found, even when no 
swarm had issued. 
gillmore’s system doubted. 
Now this fact is not known by a recent patentee 
from the State of Maine, (else he supposes others do 
not,) as he recommends placing bees in a house, and 
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