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Show Building Up an Apiary. To prevent combs from being destro)ed by moths, they should be will oovered with beea. If a weak colony has more combs than It can well take caro of, tuko some of them away, put them In an empty hlvo body and place them under a ptrnui; colony until ou can inako use of them The bees pnsslnir over the combs will keep llu-in nil right, writes f, (I, Herman In tho Nw York farmer. Home beekeepira glvo salt to their bees, but I do not practlco It, as I iievvr could seo any necessity for It It should bo dissolved In water and the water set nut In the apiary for tho bees to sip. To keep the bees from drowning, a few pieces nf nood should boimt Into tho water I tnke some framea of homy out of the brood lust In tha fall blx or seven rrtimcs well lllled with honey ure sufficient for a colony col-ony to winter on In New Jcrsc). no not try to build up our apiary too fast, b) dividing our colonies loo often Try to make tho bees piy na )ou t,n along and he suiluled vvltli a slow, healthy erowth. |