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G. Frank Pease's work-tent. "26 x 44 feet, in whicli all the supplies were put up. 



nies, although making I hem was so easy. 

 Many people thought king bees rule the 

 swarms, and some thought if one could 

 catch a king bee all the bees would follow. 

 Some thought there ought to be good honey- 

 flows from oak and pine trees, and many 

 other trees and plants. 



In answering advertisements I came in 

 touch, through J. B. Marshall, of Big Bend, 

 La., with 324 stands near Shreveport, La., 

 which I purchased in March, 1913, and for 

 which 1 began the task of preparing new 

 hives. In this task I was limited in time, 



as the honey season was just coming on, 

 and I also had to wait until April for my 

 new supplies to come. All I could do was 

 to make- new liive bodies, fill them with 

 wired frames of foundation, set them on 

 top of the old hives, and let the bees build 

 combs and start brood in them. But few 

 were transferred until the next season. As 

 the season was poor, few bees swarmed. 

 The honey was only forty pounds per colo- 

 ny, spring count, and an increase to 356 



colonies. 

 ]\Iv real 



work 



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commenced in January, 

 1914, on my return to 

 the South. Although 1 

 had left from thirty to 

 sixty pounds of honey 

 stores per colony the 

 fall before, I found 

 that they were in a 

 starving condition, due 

 fo a warm winter and 

 much brood-rearing. 

 Since this starving 

 condition made trans- 

 t'erring easy, I began 

 transferring, and fed 

 as fast as I changed. 



Nearly half the colo- 

 nies had brood in both 

 the old and new hives. 

 Setting the new combs, 

 with what little honey 

 and brood was in them, 

 in a new hive-body, 

 and cutting and trans- 

 ferring the brood and 

 l)est combs from the 

 old bottom story, and 



