INFRODUCTION. — itt 
rations. He calls thisa new Difcovery 
and Improvement, and recommends 
it likewife to his Reader, by telling 
him, it will prevent Swarming. 
In the pretended Approbation of | 
the Royal Society, Mr. Gedde tells us, 
inthe Name of that illuftrious Body, 
that, in the Treatifes, relating to the 
Management of Bees, we find feveral 
Draughts, of ent Bee- Hives, .to 
the Intention of eile 1g Swariung, 
but that none of thofe Ways have 
proved fo effeétual, as the Method 
prefcribed by Mr- Gedde. 
But why, (have I often faid to my- 
felf) why fo much*Pains, to hinder 
me from increafing my {mall Stock? 
Why fhould thefe Gentlemen deprive 
me of a Pleafure I fo ardently look 
and long for every Spring, and which 
Iam more delighted with, than all 
the other Pleafures of the Month 
of May? Can'the whole Brute Crea- 
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