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when we work at the bees, which is not very often, as we 

 keep them. Two visits a year will do, if we don't care to 

 give them more. Once to look them over in the spring to 

 see if they are free from foul brood, and put on our honey 

 cases and again to take off honey and fix them for winter. 

 But the hens we have to visit over 700 times a year, if v/e 

 only see them -twice a day, and the feed we give these hens 

 for the year, if seen all together, would frighten us. And 

 yet poultry raising is lauded to the skies while bee keeping 

 it is not thought amounts to much, but you will find a few 

 colonies of bees will bring you more clear money than quite 

 a large flock of chickens, and will not require a hundredth 

 part of the labor to care for them, as the bees work for 

 nothing, and board themselves and so require no feed from 

 you, and little attention. 



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A perfect healthy frame of sealed brood or bees almost ready to hatch. 



