FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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Not always, however, must I be willing to sell in my 

 home market for less than I can get abroad. If there is 



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a year of dead failure in my locality, or so nearly a fail- 

 ure that the home market must be at least partly supplied 

 from elsewhere, then I should get more for my honey 

 than the grocers will have to pay in the large city mar- 

 kets, for they must add freight to the price they pay 

 there. 



FALL FEEDING. 



Some seasons are so poor that the bees do not get 

 enough throughout the whole season to carry them 

 through the winter. One year I took no surplus, and fed 

 2,8oo pounds of granulated sugar for winter stores. 

 Some years the clover crop will be a failure, but plenty 

 of stores will be gathered later in the season to carry the 

 bees over winter. It is not always easy to tell in advance 



