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as in the boxes of honey — in breeding combs, they get 
in the centre and are more difficult to remove. By 
taking off these jars and removing the bees, it gave all 
the eggs that happened to be there a fair chance. Many 
writers finding the combs undisturbed when left on 
the hive till cold weather, recommend that as the only 
safe way, preferring to have the combs a little darker, 
than the risk of being destroyed by the worms. But 
I object to dark combs, and leaving the boxes will ef- 
fectually prevent empty ones taking their places, which 
are necessary to get all the profits. I will offer a few 
more remarks in favor of my theory, and then give my 
remedy for the worms. I have found in all hives where 
the bees have been removed in warm weather, say be- 
tween the middle of June and September, (and it has 
been a great many,) moth eggs enough among the 
combs to destroy them in a very short time, unless 
kept in a very cool place ; this result has been uniform. 
Any person doubting this, may remove the bees from 
a hive that is full of combs in July or August; and 
close it to prevent the possibility of a moth entering, 
set it away in a temperature ranging from sixty to 
ninety, and if there are not worms enough to satisfy him 
that this is correct, he will have better success than I 
ever did. Yet, no such result will follow, when the 
bees are left among the combs, unless the swarm be 
very small; then the injury done will be in proportion. 
A strong stock may have as many moth eggs among 
the combs as a weak one, yet one will be scarcely in- 
jured, while the other may be nearly or quite de- 
stroyed. 
