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short, set them on top of the others. 

 The sug-ar candy so highly recom- 

 mended by Editors Hutchinson and 

 Abbott is certainly good; or you can 

 feed as I am feeding ten of mine now, 

 by putting in a case of low grade sec- 

 tion honey each month on the frames 

 under the cloth. "And leave the 

 edges of the cloth up?" Yes. "How 

 cold is your cellar?" 38 to 40 degrees 

 "the coldest winter ever known here." 

 But we hatch our chicks in the cellar 

 in March and April and the two big 

 lamps raise the temperature 10 to 15 

 degrees. 



Don't move out bees until the willow 

 blooms. One more word about feed- 

 ing. I would rather feed my bees 

 every week by pouring one-fourth lb. 

 of honey or syrup on the burlap direct- 

 ly over the cluster than to go back to 

 the old way of feeding 30 pounds in the 

 the fall and have the bees all 

 starve on a hive full of can- 

 died stores. If your bees don't il3% 10 

 pounds is enough for winter, and if 

 your spring bloom is continuous, you 

 won't have to feed any in the spring. 

 You can tell by watching closely for 

 ejected brood. Leave the burlaps on 



two or three weeks after setting out, 

 then put them away for next winter. 



The ventilators are principally for 

 carrying off the moisture that comes 

 Jrom the bees, and partly for admitting 

 pure air, but if they don't carry off all 

 the moisture and you find an inch or 

 two of frost on the stone walls, don't 

 be scared, as it will do no harm there; 

 in fact, a foot or two of it would do the 

 bees good by helping to keep them 

 warm, — just as a snowbank would. 

 Some say that stone walls are damp. 

 This is not true. The "sweat" or 

 frost on stone walls is the condensed 

 moisture from the room itself, and 

 there is actually less moisture in such 

 a room than if the walls were of a 

 more non-conducting material. In the 

 deep snowbank, the snow is soon melt- 

 ed live or six inches around a strong 

 colony, the water going back into the 

 snow, and, if it can escape, the moist- 

 ure from the bees goes there too, and 

 the bees in this little icebound cavern 

 keep warm and dry, for the air of 

 their little 2x2 room is drier than that 

 of any kitchen in the world. 



C. F. Smith. 



bourne Movel M©ttlh©( 



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BY FRED W. MUTH. 



rn O create, or stimulate, a demand 

 T^for honey, requiresa thoroughknow- 

 ledgeof bees and honey, the art of true 

 salesmanship, and an abundant re- 

 serve force of lung power. If you do 

 not believe this, give it a trial, and be- 

 fore many moons you will have learned 

 that the above assertion is naught but 

 correct , 



Still, it is a great consolation to 

 know and to feel that difficulties were 

 made to be overcome, and are brought 

 to the light of day in order to give our 

 ambition and determination an oppor- 

 tunity to overshadow them. 



For that very reason I am in the 

 honey-business as a specialty, and will 

 endeavor to give a few ideas and argu- 



