HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



During the breeding season the drones are 

 permitted to roam as they please through the 

 hive and are fed a pap by the workers, who 

 seem to know that the drones are needed for 

 breeding purposes, but when the honey flow 

 begins to show signs of ending, and especially 

 in the early fall, the workers withhold from 

 them the strengthening pap and drive them 

 from the hives. 



It is interesting and even pathetic at this 

 time to find them clustered on the bottom 

 board of the hive after the workers have 

 driven them from the combs and life for them 

 becomes a problem. Again and again I have 

 seen a little worker tugging at a big drone to 

 hustle him out of the hive, and though he 

 plead in the language of the bees to be re- 

 admitted, the workers are inexorable in their 

 decision that out he must go, for, being a heavy 

 consumer of honey, and the days of his use- 

 fulness over, the decree for his exclusion has 

 been issued and the hand of every worker is 

 turned against him. 



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