299
Time of Transformation, 300
Freezing destroys Worms, Cocoon, and Moth, 300
How they pass the Winter, 301
Stocks more liable to be destroyed last of Summer, 301
When Bees are safe, 302
Means to destroy them, 302
Making them drunk and their execution by Chickens, 303

CHAPTER XX.

MELTING DOWN OF COMBS.

The Cause, 304
Effects, 304
First Indications, 305
Prevention, 305

CHAPTER XXI.

FALL MANAGEMENT.

First care, 307
Strong Stocks disposed to plunder, 307
Bees Changeable, 308
Requisites for good Stocks, 308
Great disadvantage of killing the Bees, 309
Section of country may make a difference in
what poor stocks need, 309
When Bees are needed, 310
Caution, 311
Principal Difficulty, 311
How Avoided, 311
Advantages of making one good stock from two poor ones, 312
Two families together will not consume as much as if separate, 312
An Experiment, 312
Season for operating, 313
The Fumigator, 314
Directions for uniting two families, 315
Uniting with Tobacco Smoke, 317
Condition of Stocks in 1851, 318
How they were managed, 318
Cause of their superior Thrift, 319
Swarms partly filled pay better than to cut out the honey, 320
Advantages in transferring, 320
Another method of uniting two families, 321
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