32 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



put in the cellar the previous fall. A loss of 59 per cent was 

 additional proof that it is better for the bees and their owner to 

 spend the winter in the same State. 



ENCOURAGEMENT. 



Beginning- 1881 with 67 colonies, I took 7884 pounds of 

 comb honey, and increased to 177 colonies. An average of 



Fig, 9 — Fliilo Carrying a Hive 



117 2-3 pounds of comb honey per colony, and an increase of 

 164 per cent, would be nothing so very remarkable in some 

 localities, but I consider it so in a place where there is no 

 basswood, buckwheat, nor anything else to depend upon for a 

 crop except white clover. Certainly it is not the usual thing 



