MANAGING EEES. 
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Nature has fixed certain principles in the 
peculiar instinct of the honey-bee, which are 
unalterable by human wisdom. — (See Gener- 
al Observations.) 
If the hive is much larger than the one al- 
ready described, the bees cannot work to ad- 
vantage, and will not be likely to fill the draw- 
ers in several years if they swarm, and their 
prosperity depends principally on swarming, 
for it is their nature to do so, and any manage- 
*ss»nt which counteracts their natural habits, 
impedes them in their labors, and renders 
them of little profit to their owner ; and they 
finally run out, or come to an end in a few 
years. 
Bees in large hives never swarm ; and those 
in hives much less than the one already de- 
scribed, do but little else than raise young 
bees, and lay up a sufficient quantity of food 
to supply them through the coming winter, 
and are more liable to be robbed. 
All hives of bees that swarm, are liable to 
swarm too much, and reduce their colonies 
so low in numbers as to materially injure 
them, and is frequently the cause of their de- 
