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consequently lost. Every possible means should be used to 
save the energy of the colony at this season. 
Too much value can hardly be placed upon a good wind- 
break. Evergreens so planted as to break the wind from the 
north and west are very-good. The author’s apiary is sheltered 
by a blackberry thicket immediately behind the hives and back 
Fie. 108.—The value of a good natural windbreak behind an apiary can hardly be over- 
estimated. 
of that is a grove of native trees (Fig. 108). The apiary was 
formerly in the grove where the wind swept under the trees. 
The difference in the condition of the colonies in spring, since 
nioving to the new location, is surprising indeed. 
When brood rearing commences the bees require quantities 
of water and this accounts for their frequenting the watering 
troughs so freely in early spring. Water should be placed near at 
hand to save long flights in search of it. .\ tub, trough, or other 
