MANAGING BEES. 
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ous condition is obvious. The stock of bees 
arc so numerous that their combs arc all kept 
well guarded during the moth season, so that 
no miller can enter and deposit her eggs. 
Hives made so small as to swarm, are liablo 
to reduce their colonies so small as to leave 
combs unguarded, especially when they 
swarm three or four times the same season. 
All swarms, after the first, sally forth to avoid 
the battle of the Queens; constantly making 
a greater draft, in proportion to the number 
left, until the combs arc partly exposed, which 
gives the miller free access to their edges. 
The seeds of rapine and plunder arc thus 
quickly sown, and soon vegetate, and fortify 
themselves by their silken fortress, before tne 
bees are aware that their frontiers arc invaded. 
While the moths are thus engaged in estab- 
lishing their posts on the frontiers of the bees, 
the latter are constantly and indefatigably 
engaged in providing themselves with another 
Queen, to supply the place of the old one, 
which has departed with a swarm, and raising 
young bees to replenish their reduced colony. 
Now as the moths have got possession of the 
