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fometimes Swarms in Apri/, and very often in Fu/y; 
thofe in 4pril are in great Danger, «(if Cold Wea-. 
ther fhiould follow their {warming) to be ftarved, be- 
fore they can get any thing to begin Houfe-keeping 
withall : Vhofe that {warm,in Fa/y, tho’ they are 
in no Danger of any fudden Want, Honey-gather- 
ing being plenty every where, yet. are they in great 
Danger in the Winter following, leaft having fo 
fhorta Summer, they fhou’d not have gathered Ho- 
ney enough to ferve them till the next Spring. 
Tho” it be impoffible to determine the precife 
Time of the Year when Bees will {warm, yet by the 
forwardnefs of the Spring and warmth of the Wea- 
ther, one may guefs very near the ‘Time. 
A warm, calm, and fhowering Spring, caufes ma- 
ny and early Swarms 3 dry weather maketh Plenty 
of Honey, and moift of Swarms, fo when a dry 
Summer followeth a moift Spring, the Beefolds are 
rich, but if the Summer be alfo moift, the Encreafe 
of Bees will be great, and becaufe of the Scarcity 
of Honey, there will be Danger of their perifhing 5 
fo that many Swarms at the End of Summer, unlefs 
you carefully feed them, will be no great Advan- 
tage; for except fome very early Swarms, and fome 
good Stocks which caft betime, or not at all, if left 
to themfelves, they will die for Hunger; and the 
Reafon is, that the Weather keeping them much in, 
they. can do nothing but breed, and when they go 
abroad, bring in nothing but Bee-bread and Water, 
wherewith they feed their Young, but can find no- 
thing to lay up in Store. 
Sometimes by reafon of the Uncertainty of the 
Weather, early Swarms are not the beft, the Wind 
oftentimes continuing highand cold, and the Seafon 
- clofe,; fo that without a little refrething, many 
Swarms are like to perifh, and if a Swarm by bad 
Weather. be checked, and hindred in their W on 
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