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together in one mass-meeting all the bee-keepers of this State and 

 attempt to solve the question, Which is the best bee-hive for North 

 Carolina bee-keepers ? the meeting might stay in session for a month, 

 with no satisfactory conclusion reached. Probably a dozen different 

 hives would have good backing, with perhaps another dozen kinds 

 developed by individual bee-keepers, each, of course, claiming certain 

 advantages for his own hive. But the point is this — that the bees do 

 better in the frame hives, where they store the honey in a super with 

 frames or pound sections, and it is money in your pocket to get your 

 swarms into that kind of a hive. The actual yield in pounds is 

 greater from such hives, so that the rule holds good that the frame 

 hives should be used, whether you sell the honey in the comb or ex- 

 tracted. (See the illustration on front cover of this Bulletin, and 

 the explanation below it). 



BEE-MOTH AND OTHER ENEMIES. 



The question on this subject was intended to show (when con- 

 sidered in connection with the questions regarding the race of bees 



Fig. 4. — Showing different stages of the Bee-moth, and the webs which the larvae make in the hive. 

 Two of the adult insects are shown in the lower left-hand corner. (Photo by Prof. Hutt). 



kept and the hives used) just what enemies are most serious and 

 under what circumstances they are most destructive, so that we 

 might from these facts reach some conclusion as to avoiding or 



