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Sleep Story 232 – Bee-keeping

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Bees in the Woods - The Old Way

A hive may be suspended from each end of a long pole and carried on the shoulder. In Yorkshire, says the reverend of Mr. Cotton, bee stocks are sent to moors for change of pasture in August and September. Cotters who have a little garden by the moorside take in dozens every year and get a shilling a stock for their trouble. I should like to see this tried on the Thames, for no river has more bee food near its banks.

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