rORTY YEARS AMONG THE BliES. 



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our work that we can see in advance, we may think it 

 best to shorten the ten days to nine or less. 



Suppose we go through a certain colony and find no 

 queen-cell with as much as an egg in it. The next time 

 around it may be in the same condition, and so it may 

 continue throughout the season. In that case there is 

 nothing to be done with that colony bej'ond the examina- 

 tion every ten days but to let it alone and be thankful. 



Fig. 61.— 0uUirtg Foundation. 



Such cases are not as plenty as I should like, but I think 

 they are on the increase. 



DESTROYING EGGS. 



Suppose, however, that upon one of our visits we 

 find one or more cells containing eggs. We destroy the 

 incipient cells by mashing them, and in the record-book 

 write after the date, "keg," a contraction for the expres- 

 sive if not very elegant entry, "killed eggs." It is pos- 



