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MANUAL OF THE 
The Hive being large and the colony small, they can- 
not keep up animal heat enough to make their wax work 
to good advantage. Bees cannot make comb in a cold 
Hive. In such case, most of the workers must remain 
to keep a heat sufficient for the wax workers ; and con- 
sequently very few Bees can be spured to resort to the 
fields to obtain honey and bread. They will remain in 
this forlorn condition for a short time, and then aban- 
don their work aud their desolate home. If is hard to 
trace the footsteps of these little disheartened families. 
I suppose that they sometimes emigrate to unknown 
parts at a distance, but they are more generally over- 
come by their neighbors, and they generally carry off 
what remains of their work that is moveable ; and the 
owner looks for his little laborers, and finds himself dis- 
appointed. They have fled, and left their comb which 
they had constructed, to feed and increase their great- 
est enemy, the moth. 
Second swarms are generally about half as large as 
the first swarms. The third and fourth decrease in the 
same ratio. The Apiarian should make additions to his 
second and third swarms, till they are about as large as 
a good first swarm. In this way, late swarms will be 
profitable ; but if suffered to remain single handed, they 
become discouraged for want of numbers, aud cannot 
at the same time, carry on their work, and guard the 
Hive, to prevent their being robbed of what little they 
have laid up in store. 
Small Hives should not be prepared for second and 
third swarms. Every Hive should be of the same size. 
Any drawer can be made in this case, and fit the cham- 
ber of the Hive. Let the Apiarian use every means to 
hasten their labors, and the Bees will do all in their 
power to enrich your tables with a luxury, and your 
pockets with a few Dimes. Very much depends upon 
the construction of the Hives. If you wish to reap 
bountifully from their labors, supply yourself with the 
best Hive in use; but if you wish to keep Bees, merely 
for the sake of keeping them, an old box hive, gun, or 
barrel, will answer. 
Swarms may be doubled any time within three days. 
