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bottom. If the bees arc gathering honey thoy will likely 
have the combs well secured to the frames in two or three 
days. The hive should then be opened and the sticks or 
clamps taken out. Bees can thus be transferred any month 
in the year ; but it is best, especially for the inexperienced, 
to do it as soon as they have commenced making honey. 
There is but little honey in the combs at this time, and it 
they arc transferred out of doors when bees are not collecting 
honey there is danger of iuduciug robbery. 
DIFFERENCE IN SUCCESS. 
Keeping bees is much like fishing. Two boys gethooks and 
lines out of the same lot, procure poles alike, get baits under 
the same stone and fish from the same pond — both determined 
if there are any fish there they will have them; each thinking 
if the other can catch fish, why cannot I. Both become quiet ; 
presently out flops a big sucker — curving through the air and 
down through the branchesinto the grass. Thehook is soon re- 
turned, when something immediately seizes and starts off with it. 
The self-satisfied youth at the big end of the pole gives it a 
whirl and out comes the pumpkin seed or sun-fish. The other 
sits half paticntlj', waiting his turn of luck, but succeeds in 
getting nothing but a provoking little nibble, as unsatisfying 
as the shake of the hand of the friend who seizes yours with 
his thumb and finger. The unsuccessful boy concludes the 
fish must all be where his companion is, and seats himself 
beside him, and thrusts his hook down by his ; but all to lit- 
tle purpose. The other continues to pull out first a silver- 
side, next a pike, then a cat-fish — each seeming determined 
to swallow his hook and run off with it. He succeeds appar- 
ently without effort; whilst his more laborious companion 
succeeds in catching only one or two minnows; and after 
getting his hook fastened, first in a snag, then on the limb of 
a tree, he concludes there is no luck for him that day, and 
throws his fish back in the water and goes home, reporting 
that he had not been fishing But should the boy even attcr 
two or three such failures conclude that he could never be a 
fisher, we would mark him as defective in courage and self- 
respect. The elements or the nature of things are not going 
to change in order to discommode any one. If any man can 
succeed, why not I. 
