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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



BEE-KEEPING BECOMING SPECIALIZED. 



Special Bulletin No. 7G. 



The methods of bee-keeping employed twenty years ago were very un- 

 like those of the present day. Only a few years ago bees were kept for 

 the little honey they produced for family use. The swarm was hived in 

 a box or barrel and was left to work out its own salvation. Disease, 

 when present, was seldom recognized, and when a colony died from dis- 

 ease the loss was attributed to some other cause if, indeed, the cause was 



.Hoflman Shallow 

 Extracting Frame 



Fig. 1. Modern Hive with Hoffman Frames, after Root. 



