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put ttwav Ions before October. Years ajro i 

 practiced the plan of lettiti'r the frost drive 

 the bees down, by removing the caps or covers 

 ilurinjj very cool nights. In the morning all 

 I had to do was to go around early and carry 

 the surplus arrangements away to the honey- 

 house. The plan is a very good one, it one 

 is a little careless or negligent, but I find that 

 an up-to-date bee-keeper will " get a move 

 pn " him long before Jack Frost comes 

 around. 



Years of experience have taught me that the 

 ■winter is the proper time to make preparation 

 for the following season, by tixing up hives 

 and such things as are needed about the api- 

 ary during the summer. To prepare such 

 work six or eight months ahead seems a little 

 foolish to a beginner, but an experienced api- 

 arist will recognize the importance of such 

 preparations by having all his supplies ready 

 at a, month's notice, for there will be so much 

 work to attend to during the busy season that 

 no time will be had for such work. 



I do not like the sawed-otf or short-end top- 

 bar frame. It is all right it the hives are all 

 made just alike, and of the same length. 

 Unless they are njade thus it may be the 

 frames will get to " bucking," and one end ot 

 the frame will be up or down half of the time. 

 I commenced to use them, but after a fair trial 

 I ■■ tired " them almost as soon as I took them 

 up. Again, bees have a fashion of filling 

 propolis in at the ends. The short-end frames 

 are a good deal like the old metal-covered 

 frame, sooner or later they will be all daubed 

 up ; at least that has been my experience. 



In advising beginners, I would say that all 

 copies of bee-papers should be taken care ot, 

 and then when the busy season is over, or 

 during the winter months, they can be over- 

 hauled and looked over carefully. A vast 

 amount of information will be obtained. A- 

 blank book should be kept, and whenever the 

 reader comes across a good article that he 

 thinks he would like to refer to afterwards, it 

 should be written down where it can be found 

 — the name ot the paper, number of page, 

 etc. Of course, the index at the end ot each 

 year would show all this, but I like the blank- 

 book plan much the best, because it contains 

 just what suits the reader's ideas. 

 Cass Co., Nebr., Dec. 15. J. M. YotJNG. 



Small Crop of Honey. 



The season for bees in this locality was very 

 poor — too much rain, wind, and cold weather. 

 Some have a small crop of surplus. 



Bees, generally, are in fair shape for win- 

 ter. There was plenty of white and sweet 

 clover, but it was of little use to the bees, on 

 account of the weather. About three weeks 

 of hot weather in July, and the bees swarmed 

 at a great rate. I had 9 colonies in June, and 

 34 in September; I caught the most ot them. 

 James Godfrey. 



Niagara Co., N. T., Dec. -3. 



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