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liable to disagree, and it compels me to take out the 
comb, which I do not always like to do at the time. 
To avoid it, I have tried to drive them, but when the 
hive is only part full of combs, or contains but few 
bees, it is a slow job ; and more so in cool weather. 
CONDITION OF STOCKS IN 1851. 
The latter part of the summer of 1851 was very 
dry and cold ; the yield of buckwheat honey was not 
a tenth of the usual quantity ; the consequence was, 
that none but early swarms had sufficient honey for 
winter ; twenty-five pounds is required to make it 
safe in this section. I had over thirty young swarms 
with less than that quantity. Feeding for winter I 
avoid when I can ; they would not winter as they 
were ; and yet I made the most of them good stocks 
for the next summer by the following plan. 
HOW THEY WERE MANAGED. 
I had about twenty old stocks with diseased brood, 
and but few bees, yet honey enough. Now this honey 
appears healthy enough for the old bees; and fatal 
only to the young brood. 
I transferred the bees of these new swarms to the 
old stocks with black comb and diseased brood. The 
bees were thus wintered on honey of but little account 
any way, and all that was in the others, new and 
healthy, was saved. These new hives were set in a 
cold dry place for winter; right end vj>, to prevent 
much of the honey from dripping out of the cells ; 
some will leak then, but not as much as when the hive 
is bottom up. Honey that runs out, when the hive is 
