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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



time I have had no other business but to work with bees, 

 unless it be to write about them. 



In 1880 I began out-apiaries in a tentative sort of 

 way. a few bees in two out-apiaries. In ]\Iarch of that 

 year my wife died. WTien the bees were got into the 

 cellar for winter I closed up the house, took my boy with 



Pig' 9 — Philo Carrying a Hive. 



me, and went to Johnstown, Pa., to spend the winter with 

 my sister, ]\Irs. Emma R. Jones. When I returned near 

 the close of the following April, deep snow-banks still 

 surrounded the house, and matters were in anything but 

 a happy condition in the cellar. 



