Apr. 1, 1912 



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The Crisis 



The next few weeks will be a critical peri- 

 od in the life of your bees. They have sur- 

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 stores. From this time until the early 

 honey-flow, brood-rearing will be well under 

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No less is this a crisis in the beekeep- 

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