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strikes them. It comes into the cehar and sets the bees to flying, and 

 often there is a general mix-up in the yard by tlie bees of one colony 

 joining with those of another in full flight and following them into 

 their hive. To avoid these troubles, some bee-keepers carry their bees 

 out in the night, when the indications are that the following day will 

 be fair. If the bees have ivintcred perfectly, and are quiet, all of these 

 annoyances and losses may be avoided by carrying out the bees upon a 

 day so cool that the bees ivill not think of flying. This idea that bees 

 must fly the moment that they are taken from the cellar is one of those 

 old notions that is a notion, and that is all. If bees have to wait even 

 a week or two after being placed upon their summer stands, before 

 having a flight, no harm will come as the result, providing they have 

 not wintered poorlw and are so anxious for a flight as to leave their 

 hives when the weather is so cool that they will never return. 



