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wheat) it is often possible to make increase in early summer 
and to have all the colonies up to full strength by the time 
the honey-flow begins. Increase in such a case may not 
result in any decrease in the crop and, in fact, it often brings 
an increase in the harvest. 
In the North, in regions where the main honey-flow comes 
in early summer, it will usually be found more profitable to 
set aside certain colonies from which to make increase, rather 
than to deplete the colonies throughout the apiary in an 
attempt to make increase and produce a crop at the same 
time. It is possible to make increase and to produce the 
maximum crop of honey in an apiary within a single season, 
if conditions are favorable, but not to do these things simul¬ 
taneously. 
