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tween, unite them by setting one or top of the other 
without a partition. The object of this management 
is, by judicious feeding we rear a large force of workers 
of sufficient age to gather honey about the time forage 
comes in bloom ; and by uniting and caging the queens, 
all the brood in the hive will be capped about the time 
forage comes in bloom, and the bees needed to carry 
pollen and water for the open brood are turned to 
honey gathering. As soon as the forage is in bloom, 
use the extractor as often as one-half of the combs are 
filled ; cut out all the queen cells one week after unit- 
ing them, else they may swarm. About the time for- 
age decreases, separate the colonies, liberate the queens, 
and repeat the management as above directed. 
By management of bees as above directed, very fre- 
quently as much as five hundred pounds of surplus 
honey per colony has been obtained ; and we have re- 
ports that as much as one thousand pounds per colony 
have been obtained. 
