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is practicable, by supplying any deficiency. I shall 
endeavor to make it appear profitable to do so, until 
bees enough are kept iu the country, to get all the 
honey that is now wasted. 
All can understand why it is a loss to have bees eat 
honey part of the winter and then die — that the honey 
consumed might have been saved — that it makes no 
great difference to the bees whether they are killed in 
the fall or sacrificed in the winter. I am not an ad- 
vocate for fire and brimstone as the reward of all un- 
fortunate stocks, and shall recommend it only when 
its use will make it no worse. We will see how far 
it can be dispensed with. 
GREAT DISADVANTAGE OF KILLING THE BEES. 
Those rustic bee-keepers who are in the habit of 
making their hives very large, such as will hold from 
100 to 140 lbs., and killing the bees in the fall, and 
sending the honey to market, will probably continue 
the use of sulphur, unless we can convince them of 
the greater advantage of making the hive smaller 
and have fifty or eighty lbs. of this honey in boxes 
which will sell for more than can be realized for their 
larger hive full, and at the same time, save their bees 
for a stock-hive, making a better return in the long 
run, than one hundred dollars at interest. When 
hives are made the proper size, the honey will not be 
an object sufficient to pay for destroying the bees. 
{SECTION OF COUNTRY MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT 
POOR STOCKS NEED. 
The kind of requisite to be supplied to our deficient 
