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MORE COMB-HONEY. 



Though the frost had cut off the most of the 

 flowers, and honey gathering had nearly ceased, the 

 weather for a month longer would be mostly clear 

 and warm. The nights would often be cool, there 

 would now and then be a stormy day, but on 

 the whole it would be warm enough for the bees to 

 work well in storing honey in the comb. I at once 

 extracted all that was in the supers, and obtained 

 sixty-one pounds per hive, — 6,017 pounds from the 

 ninety-seven hives. This made the whole full har- 

 vest amount to 11,564 pounds. The white clover 

 had all been put in comb before fall harvest. Of 

 the linn harvest there was yet in the barrels 2,893 

 pounds, in all 14,457 pounds, now to be stored in 

 combs. 



On examination I found that the combs in the 

 lower stories, except the two end ones, were about 

 two-thirds full of brood. To have this large amount 

 of brood coming forward at this season was what I 

 especially desired, for the young bees were the ones 

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