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ground within reach of the bees, and so 

 control the territory. I have over 950 

 hives at present in three apiaries, one of 

 the tw^o outyards being a mile west and 

 the other a mile south. The home yard 

 contains 350 hives, and 200 yards from 

 it a neighbor has 200 hives more, so 

 there are now over 1,200 hives of bees in- 

 side of two miles. I find that the two 

 outyards do better than the home yard 

 — in fact, at the home yard I have to 

 feed, while at the outyards, only a mile 

 away, the bees are making surplus 

 honey. 



I have kept bees 27 years, and have 

 never known them to work profital)ly 

 when they had to fly over a mile for 

 the honey. 



I have extracted, from March 1 to 

 June 1, 2,500 gallons of honey and 1,500 

 pounds of yellow wax. The honey, until 

 Oct. 15, is dark; after that it is white 

 from the bellflower. When the white 

 honey begins I expect to change from 

 extracted to comb honey, as my frames 

 are only six inches deep and twenty 

 long. I will make wide frames that 

 taxe 4x5 sections, and use them in the 

 same super. I formerly used T tins, 

 but have found that, to raise nice comb 

 honey, the section must be closed en- 

 tirely. — Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



The illustration is of a swarm of bees which 

 have left their hive and settled upon a bunch of 

 bananas. 



La ilustracion es la de un enjambre de adejas 

 ritie han salido de su colmena y se han posado 

 1.11 nil iccinio de platanos. 



L"n colmenar americano en Savanilla, Provincia de Matanzas. 



