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numerous, until satisfied that it is no safe place among 
them to make a shroud and remain helpless two or 
three weeks. Accordingly, when they get their 
growth they leave, get on the board on the bottom, 
become chilled and helpless in the morning, but again 
active by the middle of the day. Now, if they are 
merely thrown on the earth, a place there will be 
selected, if no better is found, for transformation ; and 
a moth perfected ten feet from the hive is just as 
capable of depositing five hundred eggs in your hive, 
as if she had never left it. 
Several generations are matured in the course of 
one summer ; consequently, one destroyed at this 
season, may prevent the existence of thousands before 
the summer is over. 
This is another subject of theoretical reasoning, and 
imposition, (at least in my opinion.) I wish the 
reader to judge lor himself; get rid of whims and 
prejudice, and look at the subject candidly and fair ; 
and if there is no corroborative testimony comes up 
to confirm any position that I assume, I shall, not 
complain if my assertions fare no better than some 
others. Only defer judgment till you know for yourself. 
Bees have ever received my especial regard and at- 
tention ; and my enthusiasm may blind my judgment. 
I may be prejudiced, but will not be wilfully wrong. 
I have found so many theories utterly false, when 
carried out in practice, that I can depend on no one’s 
hypothesis, howlver plausible, without facts in prac- 
tice to support it. No one should be fully credited 
without a test. To return to our subject. 
