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hinged together, so it could be folded 

 and easily stoted away when not in use. 



I'roni the best colony in the apiary I 

 select choice worker combs full of eggs 

 to raise my queens for that apiary; buy- 

 ing new queens, one or two each year, to 

 introduce new- blood. As niy bees are 

 mostly in out-apiaries, from three to five 

 miles from home, and no one there to 

 look after them when we are away, T do 

 not allow natural swarming; but divide 

 as occasion requires. 



When white clover begins to yield 

 honev we extract all the store-combs to 



gathered. No honey is allowed to be 

 extracted until fully ripened; and, gen- 

 erally, all capped over. If unripened 

 honey is put on the market it will soon 

 spoil and ruin the market. Good, ripen- 

 ed honey, if kept in a dry room, will 

 keep for years. I have some good honey 

 in common glass jars that I extracted 

 twenty-two years ago, and it promises to 

 remain good so long as not sampled too 

 often. 



Towards the close of the honey-flow 

 we make sure to save enough good combs 

 of honey to feed the bees until dandelion 



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get out this amber grade from fruit bloom 

 and dandelions; as its color and flavor 

 should not be mixed with the better 

 grades. Great care is taken to keep each 

 grade separate, and to see that each pack- 

 age is n'.arked, showing tlie weights and 

 the source from which the houey was 



bloom next season. I am often asked 

 "how much honey is necessary to winter 

 a colony of bees. " IMy reply is "A little 

 to much feed in the fall will be just 

 enough next spring." Wisconsin bee- 

 keepers lost 70 i)er cent, of their bees last 

 wiuter, not all for want of honey, but in 



