viii INTRODUCTION:. 
Means, to encourage, rather than pres 
vent Swarming, 1 mean firit and fea- 
fonable PRAT for fecond and late 
Swarms being little worth, and very. 
prejudicial to the old Stocks, they 
ought, if poflible, and, in the | Method. 
I propofe, may recon biette be prevented. 
This Defign, E.can affure every Lover ° 
of Bees, and every Lover of his own 
7 facrens with all the Confidence of a 
\ 
Projector, Ihave, after a great many 
unavailing Experiments, at laft fully 
accomplithed. 
I don’t wonder, that Epicu uss An 
toms, without either Hand or Head to 
direct them, fhould be fo long in — 
forming the Univerfe, and fhould make. 
fo many wrong and imperfect Worlds, 
before they hit on a right one; fince 
my Deal Boards, much Acter Materials 
for, the Purpofe than Atoms,  aflifted 
with all the Mechanical Skill, that I 
and my ingenious Carpenter are Maf- 
2 ters 
