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clover and basswood that is equally good for fall flowers; and, the 

 better the locality the greater the danger of its being overstocked by 

 its very attractiveness bringing together so many bee-keepers. 



There is no question but vi^hat many bee-keepers can secure a 

 bountiful crop of fall honey by moving their bees at the right time, 

 but a word of caution may not be out of place right here. Some fall 

 honey, that from aster, for instance, is sadly unfit for winter stores. 

 So disastrous has fall honey proved for winter stores, in some locali- 

 ties, that the bee-keepers there have given up trying to winter their 

 bees unless they substituted early gathered stores, or fed sugar. I 

 know of one bee-keeper in such a locality who secured bountiful 



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crops of fall honey from the surrounding Kwamp^^, but was utterly 

 unable to winter his bees, prepare them as he might, and he finally 

 fell to shaking them off the combs at the close of the season (thus 

 saving the honey), and restocking his apiary in the spring with bees 

 from the South. So, I say, beware when you move your bees to fall 

 pastures of asters and swamp flowers. 



There is another form of migratory bee-keeping that has long 

 been the dream of apiarists, that of starting with an apiary in the 

 South at the opening of the honey season, and moving northward 

 with the season, keeping pace with the advancing bloom, thus keep- 



