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THE BEE-HtVES. 



damage inliicted to the bees was immense, for they had to 

 rebuild their combs at a time when queens begin their greatest 

 laying. But the bee-keepers of old were persuaded that this 

 crop of beeswax was beneficial to bees, since it compelled them 



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