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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



if I allowed the poorest drones to remain in the home 

 apiary. 



TAKING BEES ALL OUT AT OXCE. 



Some object to taking all the bees out at the same 

 time, for fear of so much excitement that bees will 

 swarm out and return to the wrong hives. I have never 

 liad much trouble in that way. Neither have I had any 

 ■evil results from putting colonies on stands different 

 from the ones they occupied the previous fall. 



Fig. IS — Entrance-Blocks. 



I am not sure that I can tell for certain just why 

 there should be this dift'erence in different apiaries, but 

 I think I can see some reason for it. As already men- 

 tioned, the cellar is left wide open all night the night 

 before the bees are carried out. and it is possible that 

 just in that little thing lies the secret of the difference. 

 When the weather begins to warm ip in the spring 

 before it is time to carry out the bees, it often happens 



