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the queen cells, &e., as given in another part ot this 
book. Candied honey can be removed and other put m 
its place in a few minutes time ; the condition of your 
bees and honey can be ascertained at all times. I you 
have young stocks that have not collected honey enough 
for winter you can easily feed them, (bee chapter on 
fe< Stocks of bees in our northern climate should never be 
left out of doors during winter. But knowing that people 
will not or do not give their bees the care they need, 
have my hive double, giving a dead air space around 
the entire colony, thus preventing, in a measure the 
sudden changes of weather from affecting them, (bee 
directions for wintering bees.) 
To prevent robbery iu the common hive, (bee Bee 
1 °[ have^ given some of the principal outlines of the gen- 
eral management of the bee in my hive, also in the com- 
mon board and straw hives. The idea that you can keep 
bees profitably in the old style of hives, nail kegs sap 
buckets, hollow logs, &c., is as reasonable as to argue 
that we should fall back upon the old wooden plow for 
farming, the pack-horse and donkey for your railroads, 
and a log house to live in yourselves, and a thousand 
other relics of by-gone days that are strewed along he 
path of progress for the last half century 1 have one 
or two more suggestions to make in connection with the 
lorcgoing- _ aU traditional s t or ies in regard to 
bees ; as they arc but memories of a superstitious pas 
Some think it not best to sell bees, if they do they sell 
their good luck with them. ' 
If the owner dies some one must go andinfoim the bets 
of the loss or they dwindle away and die or that 
