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wheat) it is often possible to make increase in early summer 

 and to have all the colonies up to full strength by the time 

 the honey-flow begins. Increase in such a case may not 

 result in any decrease in the crop and, in fact, it often brings 

 an increase in the harvest. 



In the North, in regions where the main honey-flow comes 

 in early summer, it will usually be found more profitable to 

 set aside certain colonies from which to make increase, rather 

 than to deplete the colonies throughout the apiary in an 

 attempt to make increase and produce a crop at the same 

 time. It is possible to make increase and to produce the 

 maximum crop of honey in an apiary within a single season, 

 if conditions are favorable, but not to do these things simul- 

 taneously. 



