HIVES. 
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not possessed by the common hive ; neither does the 
common hive offer such advantages to the moth, by 
affording such snug quarters for worms to spin their 
cocoons, when they cannot be destroyed without con- 
siderable trouble. 
NON-SWARMERS. 
Here I will endeavor to be brief; I feel anxious 
to get through with this disagreeable part, where 
every word I say will clash with somebody’s in- 
terest or prejudice. The merits of this hive are to 
obtain surplus honey with but little trouble, which 
often succeeds in satisfying people of its utility. The 
principal objection is found, on the score of profit. 
Suppose we start with one, call it worth five dollars 
in the beginning, at the end of ten years it is worth no 
more, very likely not as much, (the chances of its 
failing, short of that time, we will not take into the 
account ;) we might get annually, say five dollars 
worth of surplus honey, amounting to fifty dollars. 
CONTRAST OF PROFIT. 
The swarming hive, we suppose, will throw off one 
swarm annually, and make us one dollar s worth of 
surplus honey, (we will not reckon that yielded by the 
first swarm, which is often more than that from the 
old stocks,) about one third of the average in good 
seasons. The second year there will be two to do the 
same ; take this rate for ten years, we have 512 stocks, 
either of them worth as much as the non-swarmer, 
and about a thousand dollars worth of surplus honey. 
