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pleted, they are very slow to leave, and unless expelled 
by harsh means, they will stay until they have sucked 
every drop of honey from the comb. 
Sometimes you will find brood comb in your draw- 
ers, and the Bees are not then easily expelled. Such 
drawers should be immediately returned to the Hive, 
in the same manner as they were taken from it, that the 
Bees may finish the work. 
Apiarians should use much care in removing honey, 
to prevent the effluvia of running or dripping honey, 
which is always the greatest temptation to robbers. — 
Bees will engage in robbery at all seasons of the year, 
when it is sufficiently warm, if they can get access to 
running honey. Bees never manufacture honey, but 
extract it from flowers and such other substances as 
yield it, in its original state. This any one can prove 
by letting his Bees have access to a field of buckwheat. 
The effluvia arising from the honey is the same as that 
arising from a cluster of buckwheat blossoms. There 
will also be a material difference in the color ; honey 
made from the flowers of buckwheat has a darkish 
color, from dandelions, a most beautiful yellow, from 
white clover and basswood, white. Bees extract but 
little honey from red clover; the cells are so deep, that 
the Bee caunot plunge his trunk, or proboscis, to the 
bottom, where the sweet liquid is deposited. Red clo- 
ver yields abundance of honey, if the Bees could only 
obtain it. In this country, Bees extract honey from 
apple tree blossoms — white clover — soft maple — willow 
— dandelion — basswood — hearts ease — buckwheat, and 
many other scattering blossoms. 
If there is much Buckwheat in reach of your Bees, 
you had better remove your honey, before your poorer 
honey can be extracted. Buckwheat honey is the best 
honey for wintering Bees. 
Druwers should be cleansed, and put into your old 
stocks in the Spring as soon as blossoms open, — and 
then taken out as fast ns they are filled. Feeble swarms 
should not be admitted to the drawers until swarming 
is over. 
Drawers should be made as tight hb possible in the 
