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have made me more and more of a doubt- 

 er. This last season, which was a poor 

 one, I got 40 pounds of surplus from each 

 of five colonies run for comb, while the 

 average of the rest of the apiary was only 

 35 pounds of extracted. The comb hon- 

 ey colonies were of the best, and if the 

 e.vtracted average hai been taken irom 

 only the best run for extracted, the show 

 ing, no doubt, would be much more favor- 

 able to the extracted side. But we might 

 double the extracted and call it 70 lbs. , 

 and then the comb honey colonies made 

 a good sho.ving for a poor year when 

 many colonies run for comb gave abso- 

 lutely no finished surplus. But to get this 

 average of 40 lbs. I had to feed back 

 about 60 lbs. of unfinished sections. 



The season was short, and practically 

 all of tlie surplus came from basswood. 

 Results might have been difTerent if we 

 had had a fall flow. 



The colonies, up to the time of putting 

 on supers, received just the same treat- 

 ment as the rest of the apiary; that is, 

 every inducement was given the bees to 

 rear brood; all natural heat of the bees 

 was preserved by a quilt and close cover; 

 plenty of stores were always in the hive; 

 and about once in 8 days the brood was 

 spread as much as the requirements of 

 each individual case seemed to recjuire. 

 .\t the time supers were required I adopt- 

 ed what, to me, at least, was a radical in- 

 novation. Instead of leaving the brood 

 in the hive as nature had arranged it, the 

 eggs and unsealed larvae in the middle of 

 the arrangement were entirely reversed, 

 and the eggs and unsealed brood put at 

 the extreme outside of the hive. 



I reasoned thus: these eggs and young 

 brood cannot get out of these combs in- 

 side of 16 to 20 days, and, therefore, the 

 bees can put no honey in them, and the 

 ones in the middle of the hive they will 

 be loth to fill with honey because the 

 queen wants them fo*- egg-laying; so they 

 will, of necessity, put all of the honey 

 above; and the sequel proved the correct- 

 ness of the position. 



Swarms were hived back on the old 

 stand on starters, and the super put 

 above, with a queen excluder between, 

 and all the bees were shaken from the old 

 combs into the swarm. All of the comb 

 honey hives swarmed, and all filled their 

 hive with nice combs, e.xcept one, and 

 that did almost nothing in the super after 

 swarming. The queen seemed to be a 

 poor one, and by the time she was super- 

 seded the flow was over. 



The .sections used were the Danzenbak- 

 er, with fence separators, and no bee- way. 

 This was my first trial of the no-bee-way 

 section, and, if 1 were to base an opinion 

 on this year, I should condemn them. 

 They have not come up to the old style 

 Danz., with me. But the old style were 

 tried in a good year, and the new in a 

 poor one, so judgment is reserved. 



.Another result: I noticed in my experi- 

 ment of reversing the brood, that the 

 sections at the outside of the super were, 

 in some instance, finished /i/'.y/',- was it the 

 position of the young brood that caused 

 it, or was it just a "happenstance?" 

 RiCHL.\ND Center, Wis., Nov. 26, 1900. 



Mow BEES M.VY BE KEPT 

 FROM ANNOYING NEAR 

 NEIGHBORS. BY JESSE isi. 

 DONALDSON. 



There are a few slight difficulties con- 

 nected with keeping bees in a village, 

 that do not trouble the man that has his 

 apiary located in a thinly settled district. 

 The village bee-keeper must manage his 

 bees, in such a way that they will not be- 

 come a nuisance; and he must also keep 

 the good will of his neighbors. Experi- 

 ence has taught me that these difficulties 

 are easily overcome; providing we are 

 careful in our management and the selec- 

 tion of our bees. 



My apiary is centrally located in a town 

 of 5,000 inhabitants, and not over 50 yards 

 from three streets. When I located here 



