40 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



put in the cellar the previous fall. A loss of 59 per cent was 

 additional proof that it is better for the bees and their owner 

 to spend the winter in the same Stale. 



ENCOURAGEMENT. 



Beginning 1881 with 67 colonies, I took 7884 pounds of 

 couib honev, and increased to 177 colonies. An average of 



Fig. 9 — I'liilo Carrying a Hive. 



117--J pounds of comb lioney per colony, and an increase of 

 104 per cent, which would be nothing' so reniarl<able in some ' 

 localities, but I consider it so in a place where there is no bass- 

 wood, buckwheat, nor anything- else to depend upion for a crop 

 except white clover. Certainly it is not the usual thing here, 



