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should be examined to see if they have enough 

 stores, and if not, they should be fed up at once. 

 Liquid food should not be given after October, and if 

 it is suspected that the bees are short during the 

 winter months, candy should be given them. A 

 cake of candy can easily be put over the frames, and 

 the bees covered up warm. The entrances should be 

 narrowed for winter, but now and then they should 

 be cleared of dead bees. Some people advise 

 turning the front of the hives to the north in winter 

 time, so that the sun may not entice the bees out in 

 snowy weather. Sometimes, when the sun shines 

 brightly on the snow, the bees are tempted out only 

 to die. 



Bees may easily be moved if proper care is taken. 

 When a swarm of bees is placed for the first time in 

 a garden, the bees mark the spot, and if the hive is 

 moved only a few yards away, they will fail to find 

 it. When bees are flying every day, they must be 

 moved two miles or more away. They will then 

 mark the spot again, and find their way home. In 

 winter time when the bees are at rest, they can be 

 moved a few yards without any loss. Some care 

 must be taken with bees when travelling. The writer 

 has bought swarms of bees from experienced bee- 

 keepers, only to find them dead with suffocation on 

 their arrival. Skeps should be stood in a box without 

 a top, and inverted. Shavings or paper will easily 

 make the skep stand firmly. The mouth of the skep 



