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every Year pay us fair and otal 
Contributions, why. fhould. we: trea¢ 
them with unneceflary Cruelty, and 
hurt ovr/elves with a Greedinefs that 
will turn to our Prejudice? Avarice 
often miftakes its own Intereft. [¢ 
never can be made to underftand, or 
believe, that ftrange Proverb, Dim- 
dium plus toto. It is evidently more 
to our Advantage, to {pare the Lives 
of our Bees, and be content with Part 
ef their Stores, than to kill, and take 
Poffeffion of the whole. | 
We have long fiance been direGed 
Lb welks tte this, in the Ufe of Mr, 
Geddes Boxes: But the Method pre- 
{cribed, is' fo tedious and difficult, as 
weil as perilous to the Operator, that 
it has very rarely been practifed, and 
hardly ever attended with Succefs, 
The Method I would recommend, and 
which. I pract cife myfelf with Eafe 
and 
