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BEE PASTURAGE. 
and never found them less profitable on that account. 
I am so well satisfied of this, that whenever I now 
have a hive in such a situation, it is a rule to intro- 
duce a swarm. 
It is calculated, I believe, generally, that when me- 
dium-sized hives are full, about seven-eighths of the 
cells are made the proper diameter for .raising the 
■ workers, the remainder for drones, except a few for 
queens. Here is one circumstance I do not remember 
to have seen mentioned, and that is, bee-bread is gen- 
erally packed exclusively in the worker cells. I would 
say always; but I would do better to be careful, espe- 
cially as I find my bees doing things so differently from 
some others. I might as well remark here, that when 
taking combs from a hive filled with honey, if such 
pieces were selected as contained only the large or 
drone cells, but little risk of bee-bread would occur ; 
of the other combs, the outside sheets and the corners 
of the others near the top are the next best. The 
sheets of comb used principally for raising workers, 
and the cells next those so used, for an inch or two in 
width, are nearly all packed with pollen, and much of 
it will remain, when the breeding season is past. 
Smaller portions are found in the worker cells in nearly 
all parts of the hive ; even the boxes will sometimes 
contain a little. 
MANNER OP PACKING STORES. 
In a glass hive, the bees may be seen depositing their 
load of pollen ; the legs holding the pellets are thrust 
into the cell, (not their heads), and a motion like rub- 
