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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING, 
happen — at the end of the theoretical six weeks we 
find our hives crowded, every frame — ten, or at the 
most eleven, standards — containing much brood, and 
the remaining space occupied with store, and a honey- 
flow just opening. We now turn the current of the 
colony in the direction of honey-gathering, to which 
matter the next chapter is devoted. 
Autumn feeding in preparation for winter, where 
our system renders such necessary, will require atten- 
tion almost immediately after the last sections are 
removed, or the work of the extractor completed. 
Modern management so entirely separates the brood- 
chamber from the honey department, that the bees 
are often deprived of, practically, all their stores ; and, 
paradoxical as it may appear, the most populous 
colonies, and those which have given the largest 
supers, are usually just the ones which most urgently 
require aid. It must be borne in mind, that when a 
stock is storing in a super, the stimulus of prosperity, 
and the apparent riches of the community, act upon 
the queen through the workers, and result in continued 
and energetic ovipositing, so that often almost the whole 
body of the hive is one large nursery. But the poor 
bees have, for our advantage, to find, as sometimes, 
perhaps, their masters have done, that 'Aiches take 
unto themselves wings and fly away;” and, just when 
supplies suddenly fail, by the reaping machine, perhaps, 
laying in a few short hours their “ El Dorado,” they 
are left with the drain of an immense family, without 
the independency they had struggled to accumulate. 
Such stocks should now receive a large dose of 
syrup, fed rapidly, to prevent them being discouraged, 
