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... contains a large amount of meadow - land , natural and artificial , and all kinds of fruit - trees ; in addition to which , the forests and the undulating nature of the land , not to mention the mountains , furnish great resources for ...
... contains a large amount of meadow - land , natural and artificial , and all kinds of fruit - trees ; in addition to which , the forests and the undulating nature of the land , not to mention the mountains , furnish great resources for ...
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... created ; and if delayed till the spring ( seeing that these defective combs often contain brood as early as February ) , it may be a matter of doubt whether it is advisable to remove them On Rational Bee - Keeping . 3.
... created ; and if delayed till the spring ( seeing that these defective combs often contain brood as early as February ) , it may be a matter of doubt whether it is advisable to remove them On Rational Bee - Keeping . 3.
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... contains a queen , or if we want to introduce a new queen , it is necessary to have recourse to temporary suffocation , and often to spend much time in searching for the queen amongst thousands of motionless bees ; whilst by taking up ...
... contains a queen , or if we want to introduce a new queen , it is necessary to have recourse to temporary suffocation , and often to spend much time in searching for the queen amongst thousands of motionless bees ; whilst by taking up ...
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... containing brood , the straw hive may be conveyed to another part of the bee - garden and our swarm is made ; nor does this prevent us , after the operation is com- pleted , from placing a fresh hive under each of these hives ...
... containing brood , the straw hive may be conveyed to another part of the bee - garden and our swarm is made ; nor does this prevent us , after the operation is com- pleted , from placing a fresh hive under each of these hives ...
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... contain more than from fifteen to eighteen pounds , is too small . In moderate or bad years , the colonies cannot , in the spring , provide against all their wants ; and their owner , calculating on a supply of honey , which the ...
... contain more than from fifteen to eighteen pounds , is too small . In moderate or bad years , the colonies cannot , in the spring , provide against all their wants ; and their owner , calculating on a supply of honey , which the ...
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