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stated. This is a common occurrence among 

 bees whose owners give them Httle attention. 



Aknost every season there will be times 

 during the summer when no honey is coming to 

 the hives, and if this condition prevails for any 

 length of time the ov^Tier should guard against 

 starvation. The author has known of many 

 colonies starving in June, just at what should 

 have been the time of a good honey flow. A 

 long continued spell of rainy weather during 

 which the bees could not fly was the cause. If 

 such weather follows the time when the honey 

 is taken from the hives at any time, some at- 

 tention is necessary to guard against disaster 

 from lack of food. 



Occasionally there will be a year when little 

 honey is stored all season through. At such 

 times there is great loss, for too many bee- 

 keepers depend upon the bees looking out for 

 themselves, and never make any provision for 

 feeding them. It would be no more foolish to 



