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are emptied, piled up, one on top of another, and at the top, 

 one placed upside down so that no dew or rain may affect them. 

 If I think it is not worked out pretty clean, I may let them 

 work it over the nest day, putting three or four times as much 

 in a box. When the bees are done with it, there will be empty 

 oat-bulls on top, and the coarse part of the corn on the bottom. 

 It does not matter if it is not worked out clean, for it is fed to 

 the horses or cows afterward. 



After the first day's feeding, the boxes must be filled in 

 good season in the morning, or the bees annoy very much by 



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being in the way, and throughout the day, while the bees are at 

 work, if I go around the feed-boxes to turn them, or for any 

 other purpose, I must look sharp where I set my feet, or bees 

 will be killed, as they are quite thick over the ground, brushing 

 the meal off their bodies and packing their loads. Before many 

 days the meal-boxes are deserted for the now plenty natural 

 pollen, although if you watch the bees, as they go laden into the 

 lii\es, even when working thickest in the boxes, you will see a 

 good many carrying in heavy loads of natural pollen. 



