STJKPLUS HONEY IN BOXES AND EXTBACTED. 



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with little balls on their hind legs. Some of them yellow ar>d some of 

 other colors. Some ignorant people suppose that this is wax. It is 

 pollen, or powdered farina, gathered from the stamens of flowers. It 

 is of very disagreable taste, and care should be taken that none be mixed 



HONEY-COMB. 



ft -Drone-cells, c— Worker-cells. 



b— Deformed-cells. 0— Queen-cell- 



with onr honey. It is used largely in rearing youDg bees On opening 

 a hive, you will often find it stuck tight with some dark colored sticky 

 stuff, that gums your hand on handling the frames. It is "propolis' a 



