98 THE BLESSED BEES. 



life. His laws working through blooms and bees 

 had again and again filled my hives with precious 

 stores. 



My preparations had been made to increase the 

 number of my swarms as soon as white clover failed, 

 and then to set all the hives to storing the honey 

 in boxes for market. Preparatory to increasing the 

 swarms I extracted all honey from the supers, and 

 set the empty frames back, to be cleansed up by 

 the bees. This last yield gave me 1,997 pounds, an 

 average of more than fifty-seven pounds per hive. 



The whole harvest from white clover and linn was : 



DATE. 



POUNDS PER HIVE. AMOUN 



June 27 . 



66, white clover = 2,310 



July 5 • 



59, " " = 2,065 



July 11 . 



71, linn, = 2,485 



July 16 . 



43, " — 1,505 



July 23 . 



57, white clover = 1,997 



10,362 



This great success was a surprise and a triumph 

 to me. The journals indeed gave reports of very 

 large yields, now from white clover and now from 

 linn, but in no case had so large a yield as mine 

 been reported from both in the same season. 

 This great yield was due to several causes : 

 1. The hives were all very strong in bees. No 

 swarms had issued, and none had been made. My 



