lORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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DIFFICULTY OF DECIDING ABOUT STORES. 



It is not an easy thing to determine just what 

 amount of stores is needed to carry a colony through to 

 the next harvest. Some colonies use more than others 

 under apparently the same conditions. Experience will 

 enable one to judge fairly well by inspection as to the 

 amount of stores present, but one can be more exact 



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about it by actual weighing. Besides," with proper con- 

 veniences for it, the weighing takes less time. But two 

 colonies may weigh exactly the same, and one may have 

 abundance and the other may starve, because, although 

 weighing the same, one had much more honey 

 than the other. One had much pollen, the other 

 little. Or, the combs of one were new, and the 

 combs of the other very old and heavy. The 

 only safe way is to have all so heavy that under any 



