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is more common for a beekeeper to move from his 

 home place in the region to the citrus country and 

 to return after the orange bloom has fallen. In such 

 a case the hives are loaded on a truck or trailer, 

 stopped up so that no bees can get out, and trans- 

 ported to their temporary location where they are 

 allowed to work until the supers are pretty full, 

 when the bee-keeper sets up his extracting outfit in a 

 movable screen room., and extracts- the honey, putting 

 back the empty supers. When they are filled again, 

 they are extracted once more and in a normal sea- 

 son, the second extraction may finish the blooming 

 period of the citrus trees. If it does, all the honey 

 in the hives is extracted both in supers and brood 

 frames, though the brood is not injured, and as 

 soon as the bees are well settled in their hives they 

 are taken back to the home place or to a new loca- 

 tion. The honey is all taken out before moving 

 because the seasonal heat, the weight of honey and 

 the warmth of the confined bees while they are being 

 moved would melt the wax and cause great damage 

 to the comb." 



In many ways the beekeeping industry has altered 

 its methods and policies to keep pace with changing 

 conditions, including organization for production and 

 marketing, which will be noted in Chapter VII. Bee- 

 keeping is also increasing largely by installation of 

 small apiaries on farms and in fruit plantations, 

 such resources having recently been notably promoted 

 by the patriotic propaganda to. increase production 

 of sweetening and by the demonstration of the effi- 



