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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



work so smoothly, but possibly the treatment was not 

 fairly administered in all cases. Some of the colonies 

 did not take kindly to the foundation, and in a few cases 

 it looked as if they might have swarmed out rather than 

 to use the foundation. In one case they built comb and 

 started a brood-nest in the vacant part, leaving the foun- 

 dation untouched. But there was some excuse for this 

 as the foundation was weather-beaten and hard. 



Fig. 63 — Super-Filler. 



WORKING TOWARD NOX-SWARMIXG. 



Of course it is no little work to go through the 

 colonies every ten days up to the time of treatment, and 

 I think it likely that it would work all right to treat 

 every colony on the excluder plan, or some other plan, 

 €arly in the honey-flow, whether they had grubs in qreen- 

 cells .or not. But there are some colonies that will go 

 through the whole season with never a grub in a queen- 

 cell — possibly never an ^gg — and exactly those colonies 

 are the ones most likely to give record-yields. To interfere 

 with their work, even for a week in a slight degree, is not 



