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shut da hive and smoke da entrance so dom 

 go upstairs an unload, den dom soon mak 

 room for der quveens, an' der queens he yust 

 go on packen avay eegs for vinter, an der bees 

 carry deir hunny upstairs, an everyting yust 

 vork lak forty-seven, an dom don't even tank 

 'bout svarming. 



An' if Dr. Miller vill yust try das plan to 

 iiiak dom tak da hunny from da downstairs 

 and put it in der shallow combs above, an so 

 on, he soon don't haf to run after da vilo-da- 

 vip of da non-svarming bees. 



Mr. Baron Lie-plenty-bad, he got noder 

 plan. He pump der quveens full of high life, 

 an den he tie little string vat dom call Pupa- 

 skinna» Castofflc;e roun der quveens neck, so 

 he don't vas git avay, an den der quveens he 

 lay more as a million eegs per minit. But ay 

 hurd since dat it ain't so. Mr. Lie-plenty-bad 

 must be awful smart feller, but der quveens 

 got little too much hi life, so he scratch round 

 an vord hip feet out, an he hav to git cork 

 legs for him. Ay lak to git von of dom 

 (luveens. Yon Yonson. 



\ FROM MANY FIELDS | 



Feeding a Little Daily. 



I am just a beginner in bee-keeping. I had 

 1.5 colonies last fall, and have lost 'i colonies 

 this winter. I am feeding the bees a little 

 every day, so as to get the hives full of bees 

 by the time the fruit-trees are in bloom. 



.loHN M. Baker. 



Wood Co., Ohio, March 'i'A. 



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Ventura Co., Calif., March .5. 



Cleaning Out Partly Filled Sections. 



On page 130, Mr. Baldwin says that the 

 Bevins method of getting partly filled sections 

 cleaned out may be all right in theory, but is 

 not practical for two reasons : 



1. If the colony is a little weak it is liable 

 to get chilled because too much cold air cir- 

 culates through the body of the colony. 



This may be true of bees in Dupage Co., 

 III., but it is not true of colonies of bees here, 

 unless colonies are so weak that it would not 

 be advisable to try to winter them. As a mat- 

 ter of fact, I do not feed weak colonies until I 

 liave united so as to have colonies of good 

 strength for wintering. 



"2. He says that my method does not sep- 

 arate the bees and sections so but that the 

 bees can get at the sections at all times. 



Well, I want the bees to have access to the 

 honey in the sections at all times. A thin 

 board, mortised as he describes, may be of 

 some advantage where the autumns are colder • 

 than they are here, but the burlap is all right 

 for this locality. I do not see that setting the 

 sections promiscuously on that board has any 

 advantage over my method of arranging 

 them. When sorting my honey in the tall I 

 place the unfinished sections back in the 

 super on the section-holders with wedged fol- 

 lower, and all separators removed. The sec- 

 tions with no sealed honey are speedily 

 cleaned out, and then these are removed, 

 leaving the others far enough apart for easy 

 manipulation. Whether a firmer chisel is 

 better than the uncapping knife, each one 

 must decide for himself. I prefer a clean, 

 smooth cut to any mangling performance. I 

 smiled, not quite audibly, when Mr. Baldwin 

 cited as evidence of the superiority of his 

 method, the fact that he has 400 or .500 sec- 

 tions ready for use next epring. I have more 

 than 1000 sections ready for use next season; 

 in fact, about 50 or 60 twenty-four section 

 supers full. r J CZZ^ r -i 



I have no quarrel with Mr. Baldwin about 

 his method of getting his half-tilled sections 



