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TtLeanings in bee culture. 



Apr. 15. 



there was danger of inducing robbing, especially 

 where a colony was in so undefended a position' 

 There was no trouble from this source, though I 

 certainly did not contract the entrance to this 



ting off the limb, I hung it up in the same posi- 

 tion near the ground and took another photo- 

 graph of them at close range. At this time the 

 weather had become quite cool, and the bees did 



colony's hive, for their hive might be said to be 

 all entrance. 



About the 20th of October I took a photograph 

 of them as seen from the ground, and then, cut- 



not cover the combs as they had before, most of 

 them having withdrawn to the interior. 



If you will examine^the large picture carefully 

 I think you can see that the bees are of the five- 



