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crops by changing. \Vhen it comes to moving hives 

 about, the advantages is decidedly in favor of the smaller 

 hive. The same may be said of the supers. I am not 

 sure the smaller hives have any other advantage, unless 

 it be that they occupy less space and cost a little less. 

 But the larger hive has the great advantage that it can 

 have a larger supply of stores on hand at all times, mak- 

 ing less danger of starvation in winter and spring. That 

 makes less trouhle and less anxiety. An 8-frame hive is 

 sometimes too small for a queen without a second storv, 

 where a single stcry with ten frames would answer. So 

 if it were to do over again, very likely I might continue 

 the 10-frame hive. 



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I have learned the production of comb-honey as a 

 trade, and it would be a good deal like taking up an en- 

 tirely different business to take up the production of 

 extracted honey. Nevertheless I do not knoz<.' that I can 

 make more money with comb than with extracted honey. 

 At one time there was so much adidteration of extracted 

 honey that the price of the genuine article was affected 

 thereby. Pure-food laws have changed that, so that 

 comb-honey has no longer that advantage. 



There is another matter that deserves serious con- 

 sideration. If I were running for extracted honey I 

 would undoubtedly produce more honey than by running 

 for comb honey. If more honey is produced, more of 

 it will be consumed, and I believe increased consumption 

 of honey would be a fine thing for the health of the na- 

 tion. So if I were broa 1-minded enough, very likely 

 I would start in again as an extracted-honey man. 



"OFFICE." 



Possibly some one of my readers mig'ht dtsire a pic- 

 ture of the office in which I do my work. That would 

 take a number of pictures. According- to circumstances, 



