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rt a large dealer in the south recently told ne that many beekeepers 



are asking for cypress hives and saying that they do not want anything else. 

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 cypress as well as 



I recently bought several hundred dollars worth of hives for rny personal 

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 cypress bottoms and they had to be made especially to fill my order. I feel 

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 will very largely increase as beekeepers learn more of the non-rot qualities 

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Trusting that the above facts may be the means of saving you many future 

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