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and not unfreqnently alter cases. Last year, for instance, it was 

 unusually warm and bees were gathering and storing honey early in 

 April and. of course, spreading their brood very fast. Xow I should 

 have considered this a good thing if I could have been assured that 

 there would have been a sufficient flow of early honey to have 

 supported the large swarms that would result. Knowing the risk 

 I did not encourage this abnormally early brood rearing. The exper- 

 ience of yiay and June proved the wisdom of my course, for with a 

 lio'ht flow of earlv honev their stores in manv hives were well nigh 



Bee-Keepers' Exhibit at Pecos Valley Exposition, Roswell, N. M., October 1st to 5th, 1912. That 

 part marked "Roselawn Apiaries" put up by H. C. Barron received 15 Ribbons. 



exhausted b}- the latter part of May and the shortage of honey in 

 their hives, with the unusual cold of late May and early June, 

 checked brood rearing very seriously, and I was compelled to feed 

 heavily to avoid actual starvation. If my hives had been heavily 

 stocked with honey, there would have been but little loss of brood, 

 notwithstanding the unseasonable cold. Indeed, the very strong 

 colonies would have been a decided advantage, as they would have 

 generated sufficient heat to have kept brood rearing at high-tide in 

 spite of the cold. I found that a strong colony would consume a 



