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of this brood would be neglected through the giving of so much to one 

 colony; but repeated examinations prove that all are well cared for. As the 

 weather is warm at this time of the year, and as many young bees are 

 emerging from these combs every hour, a few bees on the start can hold 

 things in perfect condition till all danger is past. "When this brood has all 

 emerged, such hives have an army of bees, which, in a good season, often 

 iill all the hives with honey, thus giving us an insurance for the next 

 year when that needed for brood is so used, and the rest of it carried up to 

 the sections, so there is no loss. It will be noticed that, by this plan, all 

 the honey not used in the actual production of bees goes into the sections 

 (which is something no other plan heretofore given ever accomplished), 



—IflAl't'l: "•' ■ 



that the bees and queen are stimulated to their utmost in early spring by 

 this large amount of honey telling them "millions of honey at our house," 

 so that there is not only no loss by having these combs stored full after the 

 brood emerges, but a positive advantage through the stimulating effeft 

 they have the next spring. Mr. E. R. Root, editor of Gleanings, writes me 

 that he fears the plan as given in this book may be a failure in many 

 localities on account of there being no buckwheat-honey flow in the fall to 

 fill these combs for spring use; but I think his fears are groundless, and 

 1 guess he has forgotten the grounds taken in the past, both by himself 

 and his father, "that very strong colonies will store a surplus of honey 

 where weak or only fairly good colonies will hardly make a living." These 



part of these young bees had been returned to the original colony, leaving only enough 

 in the tiered-up brood-chsmbers to fill thcni with honey before the close of the early 

 honey flow. 



