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CH A PuiayE 
Of the Advaniages of thefe Boxes above 
Straw-LHives, or the Boxes invented 
by Mr, Gedde, 
% 7 O Part of the Honey can be 
& taken out of Straw-Hives, 
without deftroying the Bees : (for driv- 
ing them into an empty Hive, is, in’ 
Effet, deftroying them) And this you 
are obliged to do, when your Hives 
are three or four Years Old; becaufe 
then the Combs (not the Bees, as is 
vulgarly fuppofed) grow old, and un- 
fit for Ufe: And our Bees, for what 
Reafon I know not, will not demo- 
lith their old Combs, in order to make. 
new ones: So that by burning your 
Old Hives, and your poor ones, neither . 
of which yield much Honey, you 
commonly lefien your Stock, as much, 
or more, than yorr Swarms will mae 
vood. 

