DESTRUCTION OF WORMS. 
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all know that when the hive is close, less heat will 
pass off than if raised an inch. 
OBJECTION ANSWERED. 
You object to this, and tell me, “the worms will get 
between the bottom of the hive and the board.” Well, 
I think they will, and what then ? Why I expect if jmu 
intend to succeed, that you will get them out, and 
crush their heads ; if you cannot give as much attention 
as this, better not keep them, or let some one have the 
care of them that will. I am as willing to find a worm 
under the edge of the hive, and dispatch it, as to have 
it creep into some place out of sight, and change to 
the moth. I once trimmed off the bottom of my hives 
to a thin edge, so they did not have this place for 
their cocoons, but now prefer to have them square. 
All profit is seldom obtained with anything. If you 
plant a field with corn, you do not expect that the 
whole work for the crop is finished. Neither should 
you expect when you set up a stock of bees, that a 
full yield will be realized without something more. 
If you are remunerated by keeping the weeds from 
your corn, be assured it is equally profitable to weed 
out your bees. 
INSUFFICIENCY OF INCLINED BOTTOM-BOARD. 
Now do not be deceived in this matter, and through 
indolence be induced to get those hives with descend- 
ing bottom-boards, to throw out the worms as they 
fall, and hope by that means to get rid of the trouble; 
(I have already, in another chapter, expressed doubts 
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