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liable to disagree, and it compels me to taike out the^ 

 comb, which I do not always like to do at the time. 

 To avoid it, I have tried to drive them, but when the 

 hive is only part full of combs, or contains but few 

 bees, it is a slow job ; and more so in cool weather. 



CONDITION OF STOCKS IN 1851. 



The latter part of the summer of 1851 was very 

 dry and cold ; the yield of buckwheat honey was not 

 a tenth of the usual quantity ; the consequence was, 

 that none but early swarms had sufficient honey for 

 winter ; twenty -five pounds is required to make it 

 safe in this section. I had over thirty young swarms 

 with less than that quantity. Feeding for winter I 

 avoid when I can ; they would not winter as they 

 were ; and yet I made the most of them good stocks 

 for the next summer by the following plan. 



HOW THKY WEKE MANAGED. 



I had about twenty old stocks with diseased brood,:V 

 and but few bees, yet Iwney enough. Now this honeyj 

 appears healthy enough for the old bees, and fatal 

 only to the young brood. 



I transferred the bees of these new swarms to the 

 old stocks with black comb and diseased brood. The 

 bees were thus wintered on honey of but little account 

 any way, and all that was in the others, new and 

 healthy, was saved. These new hives were set in a 

 cold dry place for winter; right end up, to prevent 

 much of the honey from dripping out of the cells ; 

 some will leak then, but not as much as when the hive 

 is bottom up. Honey that runs out, when the hive is 



