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might, and he finally fell to shaking them off the combs at the close of 

 the season (thus saving the honey), and restocking his apiary in the 

 spring with bees from the South, So I say, beware when you move your 

 Ijces to fall pastures of asters and swamp flowers. 



There is another form of migratory bee-keeping that has long been 

 the dream of apiarists — that of starting with an apiary in the South at 

 the opening of the In mey season, and moving northward with the season, 

 keeping pace with the advancing bloom, thus keeping the bees "in clover" 



the entire summer. The difficulties to be 



ime are largely those of 



transportation. There is m.) single line of railroad running north and south 





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for a sufficiently long distance to make a success of migratory bee-keeping. 

 When shipping bees h\ freight, on the migratory plan, the delays at 

 junction points are not only vexatious but disastrous. It is for this reason 

 that longing eyes ha\'e been cast at the Alississippi River and her steam- 

 boats, and once Mr. C. O. Perrine tried moving several hundred colonies 

 up the Mississippi on a barge towed by a tug. The plan was to run up the 

 river nights, and "tie up" during the day to allow the bees to work. 

 There are several reasons why the plan was a failure. The start was 

 made too late in the season, and accidents to the machinery of the tug 

 caused delays. In order to overtake the bloom it became necessary to 

 confine the bees and run day and night. The confinement for so long was 



