52 A Modern Bee-Farm 



put their losses down to bacteria, pollen, cold, etc. ; but their late- 

 gathered honey is not always good and wholesome, while in 

 many cases if it is good, it is gathered often so late as October. 

 Thus the vitality of the bees is undermined too late for recupera- 

 tion by breeding before the cold of winter is upon them. 

 Nothing is so exhaustive as the gathering and storage of a heavy 

 surplus, and thus the too late gathering places a colony at a 

 tremendous discount for wintering. 



