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scattering as in Fig. 59. Such a colony is more amenable 

 to treatment, and can be well utilized by uniting with a 

 weak colony having a laying queen. 



Fig. 37. — Fainted Tin Hive-Covers. 



RECORD ENTRIES. 



While care is taken to omit no entry in the book that 

 will be of future importance, there is really not such a 

 great deal of writing done, as will be readily understood 

 when it is remembered that only one page is allotted to 

 three colonies, allowing only 22 square inches for each. 

 It is seldom that a colony requires more than its allotted 

 space in the season, hardly half the space being used 

 on the average. There is a great deal of monotony about 

 the entries, and there are a few words which are so fre- 

 quently used that abbreviations aid much in saving room 

 and time for making the entries. Some abbreviations 

 that are constantly used are as follows : b for bees, br for 

 brood, c or qc for queen-cell, g for gave, k for killed or 



