FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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Yes, but the eonibs may be in such condition that tlie queen 

 will be cramped for room, even in a hogshead. 



NON-SWARMIXG PILES. 



For a good many years I have been in tlie ludiit of having 

 in each apiary one or more colonies whose hives were kept as 



Fiij. 



-Ileurl^eitne. 



a sort of storehouse wliei'e extra frames of lirood or honey 

 could be )nit. to be diawn from as occasion rei|uireil, Ind (jften 

 there has been no drawing, and these "piles" have grown to lie 

 four or five stories high with an iumiense force of bees. 1 

 never knew one of them to swarm. But the ventilation was 

 as immense as the foi-ce of bees, for each story had an eu- 



