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boxes and 90 pounds in the frames. The result 

 was not so good as it might have been had 

 I watched the hives carefully enough to deter- 

 mine exactly when the frames ought to have 

 been emptied of their contents by the use of an 

 extractor. I have never taken the trouble to 

 get an extractor at all, preferring to work en- 

 tirely for box-honey. Also, I did not take out 

 my boxes as fast as they were filled, and this 

 had something to do with the work of the bees, 

 who do their best when starvation threatens 

 them. For the fourth year, inasmuch as six 

 hives were simply flooding me and my neigh- 

 bors with honey, I neglected to hive the swarms 

 at all, and simply let them go, knowing that 

 more honey would mean a serious amount of 

 time taken in looking after the hives and in 

 selling the honey. The last year has given me 

 no less than 280 pounds of honey in boxes and 

 160 pounds in the frames. Half of this honey 

 has been sold at an average price of fourteen 

 cents a pound, which is about two thirds of 

 the price obtained for it by the local grocer to 

 whom I sold it. 



To sum up the results of my experiments in 



