72 NEW OPINIONS ON I?AX. 
quired five combs of beautiful wax, 
saspencledlfroin its arch and extremely 
brit tie. 
The workers though in captivity 
had been able to collect farina? while 
they were at liberty they might have 
obtained provisions on the eve or on 
the day itself of their imprisonment, 
and enough might have been in their 
stomach, or on their legs, to enable 
them to extract the wax fro-m. it 
which was Found in the hive, tlut it 
it actually came from the farira. pre« 
viouslv collected, this source was not 
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inexhaust able j and the bees oeing un¬ 
able to collect more, woo'd cease to 
construct new combs, and would fall 
