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and honey of the very finest quality. On their 
return home from the moors, some of the hives are 
again driven, and deprived of a portion of their 
stores; or united in many instances two or three 
together, to form strong families as stocks; for the 
value of population is too well understood to allow 
of any unnecessary destruction of life. 
Condemned Bees.—We cannot forbear from append- 
ing an excellent piece of advice on this head from 
Mr. Cheshire’s book (under Calendar for September) : 
‘*Condemned bees may now be purchased, and treated 
as explained above [the directions were to drum three 
or four skeps into one, transfer to an empty hive, 
and feed well till they reached the proper weight; 
pollen, real or ‘‘artificial,’ being supplied by shaking 
it into an empty comb held horizontally]. Whilst 
drumming bees for yourself, explain to the owners 
the method, and show them the folly of destroying 
the little labourers in the sulphur-pit. You may 
not be able to make bee-masters of cottagers in one 
lesson, but you can let in some light, and may be, 
as we have been, gratefully thanked for your 
kindness, while your willingness to buy what the old 
system destroys, is an unanswerable argument that 
there is waste somewhere.’ To this we may add a 
remark of Mr. Cowan, that ‘‘driven bees fed up in 
the autumn invariably make the strongest stocks 
the following season, for the simple reason that as 
they are obliged to make new comb, breeding is kept 
up later, and the population is a young one.” 
