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A YEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT-APIARY 



between apple and clover bloom, sugar syrup or inferior honey till the 

 combs and all cells not occupied with brood are solid full of sealed 

 honey, claiming, for this plan, yields in excess of others who do not so 

 feed, arguing that, by such a plan, all of the clover honey is put into the 



DOOLITTLE'S WIDE FEAME WITH SECTIONS. 



sections. I believe they make a mistake. The greater yield comes from 

 this fed honey or sugar going up into the sections, together with that 

 gathered at this time from the clover bloom; for I have repeatedly seen 

 such combs of sealed stores all emptied, or nearly so, two weeks after the 

 clover began to yield honey, eggs, larvae, and sealed brood taking its 

 place. And another thing which proves to me that very much if not all 

 of the honey which is now in this prepared hive goes into the sections, 

 is the color of that stored therein during the time the queen is filling the 

 hive below with brood. Quite a little of the honey left over from the 

 year before, which is given to the bees for stimulative purposes, so that 

 they may think there are "millions of honey at our house," was gathered 

 from the buckwheat. Of course, the most of this goes into brood; but 



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often there is enough left, so that, when mixed with the other honey 

 which has been accumulating since these combs were put in the hives 

 during the spring, together with that coming in from clover at this time, 

 it will give the honey in the sections from the first super filled a very 



