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brood, the queen cannot lay in sealed 

 lioney, and the bees will have to con- 

 sume any honey they took out of the 

 diseased combs as they cannot store 

 it in the rapped honey. 



This, wlien properly done, is a sure 

 cure ('\(>r}' time. 



Very late in the fall you will f;'et 

 calls, far too late to do anythiufr, and 

 cvcrythin.u' in a bad state. You will 

 Jtist U:\\c to use jud.uniont, and si/e 

 up your the man, consider the distance 

 he has his bees from other apiaries, 

 and so on, because it won't do for him 

 to botch his work, and keep stocks for 

 his neiuhbors' l)ees to rob. Get him to 

 kill off all his worthless trash, if he 

 has his bees near others, and save his 

 best ones and treat them early in the 

 n(>.\t honey season. Every man's 

 ri.uiits must be considered, and the 

 man that has the diseased colonies 

 will be dealt with just as fairly by you 

 as tho.se that have not. 



Woodburn, Out., Sep;. 8, 1902. 



MANAGEMENT AS THE 

 HARVEST IS DRAWING 

 TO A CLOSE. BY H. R. 

 BOARDMAN. 



It must be taken into account that 

 different localities require different 

 management, and different seasons re- 

 quire methods to meet the varjing 

 conditions that are presented. 



Supose then that the season is near- 

 ing its close, and that each hive has 

 <»n an average, two supers of sec- 

 tions. This means, of course, that some 

 have two, some three, and others only 

 one; the sections being in all stages 

 of completion. 



It is desirable to have as many f)f 

 the sections completed as possible. 

 Just how can this be the most econom- 

 ically accomplished? 



There is so much uncertainty in the 

 woik of the apiary that, after all, 

 \ ( ry m\icli must depend upon tlie skill, 

 JudgnuMit and experience of the bee- 

 keeper. 



GIVE NEEDED ROOM AT Al,l, TIMES. 



I consider it good management to 

 give all the room, in the most avail- 

 nl)le shape, at all times, that tlie bee.s 

 are expected to nei'd to store the honey 

 gathered by them from day to day. 



Xo amount of crowding of the su- 

 per-room will induce the bees to seal 

 over the combs before the lioney is 

 ripened to their liking. 



The unfinished combs, those being 

 constructed, furnish -t^conomical stor- 

 age room for the raw nectar, where 

 it can be evaporated, spread out, 

 dried, if you please, ripened, and grad- 

 ed, in a most wonderful manner, from 

 the new honey of today to the finished 

 product. 



In its turn each grade will be gradu- 

 ally finished, inspected by 1 numer- 

 ous corps of experts, and sealed up to 

 the close of tlie season, when the wax 

 secretion stops with the honey gatli- 

 ering. 



We are sometimes disappointed (Vt 

 by a liberal honey fiow just at the 

 close of the honey season. If tlie su- 

 ]>ers have been crowded so that there 

 is not ample room for the new lioney, 

 it will be crowded into every available 

 enipt.v cell in the already finislied sec- 

 tions, and remain there, most lilcely 

 to become thin and drip out after the 

 honey is taken off; a \cvy undesirable 

 condition, and one that many bee-keep- 

 ers have experienced to tlieir sorrow. 



Ample room in the supers, I am 

 certain, facilitates the worli of com- 

 pletion. 



THE OBJECTIONS TO "FEEDING BACK." 



Th(> unfinished sections are a great 

 temptation for various experiments 



