management of bees. 
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would be to defeat its own obiect, 
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for famine would soon destroy those 
whom a mistaken mercy had spared* 
Besides, the construction and ma- 
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nagement of these hives are attended 
with great trouble; the descriptions 
of the different processes by them* 
are? in general, too complicated to be 
easily understood: and the necessary 
aparatus too expensive to be purchased 
hat by a few : they are, therefore, not 
calculated for general use. 
After a particular examination of 
most of these ingenious newly invent¬ 
ed hives, we must come to this con¬ 
clusion:'—That none is better adopted 
for general use than the common bell 
