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sometimes robbed by the adjoining hives, and 
then the moths finish or destroy what is left. 
When bees are collected in drawers for the 
purpose of equalizing colonies, by doubling, 
&c., they should be permitted to stand until 
evening before they are united, it being a more 
favorable time for them to become acquainted 
with each other by degrees ; and the scent of 
the bees in the lower apartment will enter 
through the apertures during the night so much 
that there is a greater degree of sameness in 
tire peculiar smell of die two colonies, which 
takes off their animosity, if they chance to 
have any. 
Second swarms are generally about half as 
large as the first, and third swarms half as 
large as second ones. 
Now if second swarms are doubled, so as to 
make them equal in number with the first, the 
owner avails himself of the advantage of a 
strong colony, which will not be likely to be- 
come disheartened for want of numbers, nor- 
overcome by robbers from stronger colonies. 
It is far less trouble, and less expense, for 
the bee-owner to equalize his colonies, than tp 
