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from his best stocks, or by purchasing desirable queens from 

 apiaries that can be relied upon for excellence and healthiness 

 of stock. 



However bad it may seem, there is almost certain to be 

 one or two fair weather spells of a few days' duration, when, 

 by a careful amalgamation of forces, fairly good returns may 

 be secured ; and, even in uncertain weather, stocks in good 

 heart, placed close to any heavy crop, are almost sure to" do 

 well, and repay any trouble taken in removing them. 



Where there is a demand for it, increase should be obtained 

 as soon as it is found the season is likely to end with no surplus 

 honey. Besides improving his stock and disposing of surplus 

 colonies, there are other plans that may be followed to prevent 

 loss during a -season considered unfavorable for honey. 



The cultivation of fruit will be a great advantage, and pay 

 both ways if close at home ; and where it is convenient to 

 grow large flowering field crops, with due thought for the bees 

 as well as the profit on the hay or seeds, a failure in the honey 

 returns will seldom be known. 



