FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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again, and then in a few days there would be after- 

 . swarms, and they didn't know which swarms were likely 

 to have young- queens, and which clipped queens. Some 

 swarms probably got away, but in the round up when 

 I went out again, August lo, I found the whole number 



Fig. 8. — Carrying with Hope. 



of colonies had reached 40, there having been an increase 

 of 12 by natural swarming in addition to the nine colonies 

 I had formed artificially. 



BACK TO COUNTRY LIFE. 



Clearly, keeping bees at long range was a very unsatis- 

 factory business. City life was also unsatisfactory ; a 



