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low the mill. Consequently the individual 

 beekeeper must know something about 

 the honey producing plants of his neigh- 

 borhood and must adjust his system of 

 management to suit his own conditions. 

 I am saying this partly for my own pro- 

 tection because no system of hive man- 

 agement could be applied to all parts of 

 the country with success. I can only out- 

 line a system that works in the white 

 clover belt and I will try to adapt it to 

 other conditions where it seems possible 

 to do so. 



Eegardless of the location of the apiary 

 or of the sort of honey that is to be pro- 

 duced, the first thing the beginner should 

 learn is that a season's management of 

 an apiary begins in the summer of the 

 previous year. The bees which live over 

 winter are all hatched from eggs laid in 

 August and September and unless a colony 

 has a good queen and plenty of surplus 

 stores it will not rear enough young bees 

 to winter as a strong colony. Given the 



