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light ones. I do not now look after the stores of those that worked in 

 sections, as it is seldom that there is a lack with any of these, as the 

 plan used, together with the ten-frame hive, nearly always causes the 

 storing of plenty of honey for winter. ^ If, when turning the bottom- 

 board for winter, at our next visit, any are found to be light, a change 

 of heavy combs for some of their light ones is ihade, so that all /are 

 known to have 25 lbs. or more, which is amply sufficient for all their 

 needs till they can be looked after in the spring, when starting them 

 on their road to prosperity, for both themselves and owner. After again 

 carefully looking over all the piles of hives and supers containing' honey, 

 to see that there is no crack or hole about any of them sufficiently large 



for the entrance of a bee, and giving a general glance over the whole, to 

 see that all is in good condition for leaving, I am ready for my journey 

 home. And this is what was done on the tenth visit. 



A EETEOSPEOT. 



As I am about to leave I can not help taking a last, lingering look 

 at things, as they have so changed since I came at noon. Instead of 

 tiered-up hives, and those with supers, which have gradually grown up 

 with me during the summer's work, all have assumed the appearance 

 of what they had in spring, and I am reminded that the work of the 



1 This can not be depended upon in localities not having a late honey flow. When 

 extracted honey is being produced, hives even larger than the 10-frame Langstroth are 

 usually short of stores for winter when the supers are removed except in localities 

 having a late honey flow. Often even then the bees do not store enough in the brood- 

 (•hamber when there is plenty of empty comb in the supers. 



