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till about the middle of July. Colonies that are 
kept populous during this time, and properly man¬ 
aged, are often very profitable. If the honey ex¬ 
tractor is properly used during the honey season, 
two to three times as much honey will often be 
gathered as if taken in the combs, as the bees then 
consume no time and honey in constructing combs. 
At the close of the clover and linden bloom, this 
extracted honey may be fed to the bees, as there is 
then usually several weeks during which the bees 
consume more honey than they gather from blos¬ 
soms. By this method the extracted honey may 
be secured in new combs in the nicest form for 
market. The bees are also kept strong and their 
combs filled, which is the best practical method of 
protecting them from the bee moth, which is usu¬ 
ally the most troublesome during this season of the 
year. The bees being kept; strong are also ready 
to gather honey rapidly during the buckwheat or 
fall season, and being kept strong and their combs 
properly filled secures them the best conditions for 
winter and for colonizing, by partitioning the hive 
before going into winter quarters. 
It is here recommended that all honey made 
from natural sources, and especially that gathered 
in the fall season, be removed from the brood combs 
and replaced with good sugar syrup soon after the 
first killing frosts. Impure honey, by engendering 
disease, has caused the loss of many colonies of 
bees when confined too long to their hives during 
the winter and spring, and sometimes as late as 
during the month of April. During the winters 
and springs of 1872 and 1873 nearly all of the bees 
were lost from this cause in many parts of the north¬ 
ern, middle, eastern and western States. The remedy 
