FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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these "piles" have grown to be four or five stories high 

 w^ith an immense i orce of bees. I never knew one of 

 them to swarm. But the ventilation was as immense as 

 the force of bees, for each story had formerly an entrance 

 as large as the lower entrance, and perhaps the_ super-' 



Fig. 55,— Heartsease. 



abundance of ventilation was the secret of their not 

 swarming. 



YOUNG QUEENS AND SWARMING. 



It was said that colonies with queens of the current 

 year's rearing would not swarm, and one year I supplied 



