% 0 Of Bees. 
ed, that the Stocks or Colonies of Bees 
could by other ways or means, than by 
their own voluntary Swarming, be ever 
multiplied or increafed. 
Therefore if you defign many Stocks in 
your Apiary, or that you keep your ordi¬ 
nary ftock only for increafe wherewith to 
Bore your better Hives (hereafter difcourfc 
edof ) which you keep for the fake of the 
Honey, be fure not to over-hive your Bees $ 
for the lefs the Hive is, the oftner they 
Swarm. For Bees over-hived rarely in¬ 
creafe, unlefs it be an early Swarm and in a 
good Summer. And in good Summers, an 
early Swarm not over-hived may caft a 
Swarm it felf: A fufficient argument that 
they fpend not their time in Luxury and 
Idleneftj and that although they have 
room enough in their Hives to make their 
Combs and ftore themfelves with Honey, 
yet do they breed during the breeding¬ 
time, elfe could they not fend forth a new 
Colony fb loon 5 and cannot employ them¬ 
felves in gathering Honey before it falls. 
The fending forth of Swarms or Colonies 
doth not at all hinder or confound the 
Bees, it being but the work of t\yo or three 
days to prepare for a Swarm: unleft the 
badueft of the weather prevent, which may 
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