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looked for the queen or eggs, theu left 

 them alone, except where I thought the 

 queen had been lost. Then I exam- 

 ined again to make sure of the queen, 

 and if they had no queen I gave queen- 

 cells to the afterswarms. I hived them 

 in hiving boxes, set them away in a 

 cool place, cut out the queen-cells, and 

 returned in the evening. There were 

 none that swarmed out again, but they 

 settled down to business. 



My yard is well sheltered, and I give 

 large hive-entrances. I see to it that 

 each colony has an abundance of room, 

 and in extremely hot weather I raise 

 the. covers over the strong colonies, 

 and where the supers are tiered up 

 three or four high. 



If I have no more swarms from now 

 on I shall adopt this plan in the future. 



Mr. Blunk and I are going to try 

 those rear-end feeders, and have writ- 

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 of anything of the kind in the market. 

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Webster Co., Iowa, Aug. 22. 



Honey Crop Not Good. 



The honey crop will not be good in 

 this locality, owing to the extreme dry 

 weather. Bees will hardly store enough 

 honey for winter use. 



Mike D. Mohr. 



Rock Island Co., 111., Aug. 17. 



Wintering Bees— Brace-Combs. 



The picture shown on page 497 was 

 taken when my bees were wintered on 

 the summer stands. The barrels were 

 used as outside cases to hold the shav- 

 ings. The square boxes, shingle-roofed 

 and composed of shingles, were used 

 for the same purpose, and answered 

 well. 



The barrels and boxes were aban- 

 doned after a few winters, and the bees 

 are now wintered with much less 

 trouble in my bee-cellar. 



An inquirer would probably wonder 

 how an ordinary sugar-barrel could be 

 put over a bee-hive. My hives are 12 

 inches square, and a headless sugar- 

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 abundant room for excelsior or chaff- 

 packing. These covers were used sum- 

 mer and winter. Now I use a board a 

 little over a foot square, covered with 

 tin, and laid on top of the hives. It 

 is very easy to handle, and answers 

 very well in the summer, but a box 

 would probably be better in the spring. 

 I have a canvas cover that I have used 

 on the sides below the tin cover, but it 

 gets thin and fails in about 3 seasons. 



As my hives are constructed and 



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