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the front. These are all put in the home apiary. Not 

 that queens will be reared from all of them. The one 



Fig, 13. — Entrance-Blocks. 



or two very best colonies may furnish all the young 

 queens, the rest will furnish choice drones. By doing 

 this from year to year I ought to have better stock than 

 if I allowed the poorest drones to remain in the home 

 apiary. 



TAKING BEES ALL OUT AT ONCE. 



Some object to taking all the bees out at the same 

 time, for fear of so much excitement that bees will 

 swarm out and return to the wrong hives. I have never 

 had much trouble in that way. Neither have I had any 

 evil results from putting colonies on stands different 

 from the ones they occupied the previous fall. 



I am not sure that I can tell for certain just why 

 there should be this difference in different apiaries, but 

 I think I can see some reason for it. As already men- 



