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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEl'ER 



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Silvara, Pa., July 2, 1902. 



Editor Bee-Keeper: — Which is the 

 best way to tier up supers on a hive. 

 to put the empty one oft top or to 

 raise the filled one and place the emptv 

 one under? Please answer through Tlie 

 Bee-Keeper. 



On June 6 I hived a swarm' on nine 

 L. combs; June 20 I put on the sur- 

 plus case and on the 28th they were 

 storing honey. Who has a colony to 

 beat this record? Yours. 



Z. Cornell. 



If the nectaryielding bloom is plenti- 

 ful and indications are favorable for a 

 continuation of the flow, it is advisable 

 to raise the super in which the work 

 is nearing completion and set the 



empty one below, as you suggest. H 

 the one is "filled," however, it is TJet- 

 ter to remove it as soon as the bees 

 begin work in the new one, if not at 

 the time of' placing the empty one in 

 position. The usual method, is to give 

 the new super as soon as the first is 

 about two-thirds completed; though, in 

 the event of a cessation of the honey 

 flow at this time, there is some danger 

 of the bees carrying the honey from the 

 upper to the lower super. If the con- 

 tinuation of the flow is a matter of 

 question, and yet the bees appear to be 

 in need of more storage room, it 

 would be safer to place the new super 

 on top, thus allowing the partly finish- 

 ed sections to remain nearer the brood 

 to be completed as far as possible. Lo- 

 cal conditions must necessarily gov- 

 ern this operation, and the bee-keeper 

 must rely largely upon his judgment as 

 to the best thing to do under existing 

 conditions. The plan of raising and 

 tiering from below is thoroughly prac- 

 ticable, with some experience as a 

 guide; but rather a dangerous proce- 

 dure otherwise. — Editor. 



BULGARIA. 



A bee-keeper living in a district of 

 Bulgaria between the Danube and the 

 railroad Rustschuk-Varna has this to 

 say about his bee business: "Our hives 

 are made of willow, basket fashion. 

 When the swarming season is over we 

 have from five to six hundred colonies 

 m two yards. Little attention is paid 

 them after swarming time. About twice 

 each week we visit them, passing 

 through between the long rows of hives 

 and where we notice any bees dancing 

 around the entrance of a hive, the bees 

 letting their legs dangle down, that 

 hive is doomed and we brimstone it at 

 our earliest convenience. It is queen- 



less and would be ruined by robbers 

 and waxmoth long before we would get 

 around to take up the others. We have 

 no other way of ascertaining queenless- 

 ness. Of the five or six hundred colon- 

 ies all but one hundred or one hundred 

 and ten are brimstoned. 



•BRAZIL. 



Gunther of Brazil reports in Central- 

 blatt that bee-keeping does not pay 

 there very well. The climate is so mild, 

 bees can fly every day in the year, con- 

 sequently they breed without interrup- 

 tion and so use up about all the hon- 

 ey they gather. Pollen is brought in 

 every day, honey very irregularly, some 

 years almost none at all- Still many 



