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is practicable, by supplying any deficiency. I sliall 

 endeavor to make it appear profitable to do so, nntil 

 bees enough are kept in the country, to get all the 

 honey that is now wasted. 



All can understand why it is a loss to have bees eat 

 honey part of the winter and then die — that the honey 

 consumed might have been saved — that it makes no 

 great difference to the bees whether they are killed in 

 the fall or sacrificed in the winter. I am not an ad- 

 vocate for fire and brimstone as the reward of all un- 

 fortunate stocks, and shall recommend it only when 

 its use will make it no worse. "We will see how far 

 it can be dispensed with. 



GREAT DISADVANTAGE OF KILLING THE BEES. 



Those rustic bee-keepers who are in the habit of 

 making their hives very large, such as will hold from 

 100 to 140 lbs., and killing the bees in the fall, and 

 sending the honey to market, will probably continue 

 the use of sulphur, unless we can convince them of 

 the greater advantage of making the hive smaller 

 and have fifty or eighty lbs. of this honey in boxes 

 which will sell for more than can be realized for their 

 larger hive full, and at the same time, save their bees 

 for a stock-hive,, making a better return in the long 

 run, than one hundred dollars at interest. When 

 hives are made the proper size, the honey will not be 

 an object suf&cient to pay for destroying the bees. 



SECTION OF COUNTRY MAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT 

 POOR STOCKS NEED. 



The kind of requisite to be supplied to our deficient 



