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queen could not occupy, expecting that the heather honey 

 would all go above, and that when the bees came home 

 they would require no more feeding. True indeed, for 

 there would in many cases be no bees to require it. How 

 utterly inconsistent, to add wear and tear without com- 

 pensation in young workers, when the whole energy of 

 our bees should be reserved for the storage of this last 

 crop ! And how very injudicious to crowd the queen out 

 at the very time we require one that will still further 

 extend the brood nest in preparation for the good time 

 near at hand. 



Moreover, it is a fact no amount of false reasoning 

 can gainsay, that where heavy feeding is done just before 

 supering, especially in Spring, t\\& greater portion of the 

 syrup thus fed is stored above after the sections are put on^ 

 Thus the result is both delusive and dishonest. 



On the other hand, the process is so much like killing 

 the goose to get the golden egg, that one should bear in 

 mind the fact that heavy feeding causes the destruction of 

 brood which the bees at this period do not hesitate to 

 remove for the accommodation of stores thus forced upon 

 them, so that not only does the beekeeper add wear and 

 tear without cause, but actually gets rid of many young bees 

 which should have been relied upon for his heather harvest. 

 A young queen, the union of forces and just a sufficiency 

 of stores, are as necessary now as when preparing for 

 the first honey flow of the season. 



When iVlovinsr to the Heather, 



everything should be got ready and loaded on the vans 

 over-night, and if not desirable to travel during the night the 

 journey ought not to be delayed liter than 3.0 a.m. Upon 

 reaching their destination the hives should be treated as 

 before shewn after a journey. 



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