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along branches and creeks. Also a 

 person's health is better on higher sec- 

 tions. An ideal location is around or 

 near a small town which will consume 

 several tons of honey, and in which the 

 apiarist can live, give his children the 

 best educational advantages, and bring 

 them up in good society and yet live 

 among his bees. There are many loca- 



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tions. The writer has such a location 

 and is well satisfied. 



In conclusion, let me say that I have 

 not written this to boom bee-keeping 

 here, but to answer inquiries which have 

 and will come to my desk before next 

 season ; also to throw some light on 

 apiculture in the Southeast. 



Crisp Co., Ga. J. J. Wilder. 



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Little T Super Sticks 



1. I believe the T-super is a good, handy 

 super when once getting it correctly made. 

 What are those little }:jx3-33 sticks that you 

 speak of on page 783? I do not understand 

 these figures, and what the sticks are for, un- 

 less they are used to fill the space between the 

 sections that the T-tins form. 



2. Do the supply-dealers make these sticks? 



Wisconsin. 

 Answer.— You are right in your supposi- 

 tion. There is extra space in the length of 

 the super, and for two reasons. One is that a 

 little space is made between the sections by 

 the T-tins. Another is that it would be ex- 

 ceedingly difficult to get the sections into the 

 super if they were a tight fit. The little sticks 

 fill up the vacant space. Sometimes only 2 

 are needed, and sometimes 3. You can get 

 along without them, but the bees will fill glue 

 in the empty 6paces, and, besides, the sec- 

 tions are more true and square if wedged up. 

 Probably any manufacturer of supplies would 

 make them. 



in the spring and start brood-rearing, it will 

 be well to see whether there is brood in each 

 story. If so, then you will separate the two 

 hives so a-; to save both queens, or at least put 

 a queen -excluder between the two stories till 

 you do separate them. 



Taking In Outside Wintered Bees to 

 Look After Them 



Wintering One Colony Above Another 



I am a beginner and have 2 colonies here at 

 the house. One became queenless after 

 swarming. I introduced a new queen suc- 

 cessfully, but left the colony weak. The 

 other colony, a strong, heavy one, carried its 

 dead queen out on the alighting-board, Nov. 

 20. I put the colony on top of the weak one, 

 with a paper between in which I cut a hole 

 big enough for one bee to pass through. The 

 first and second day they were aroused quite 

 a little; that is, the queenless colony, but 

 now they are quiet. They did not arouse the 

 lower, weak colony. I haveihem packed in a 

 big box. Can I leave them standing on top 

 of each other till spring, or how else will I 

 have to treat them? The lower box has only 

 6 frames. What is to be done in spring with 

 them? I had the queen in a warm room and 

 and she still showed a faint sign of life 2 days 

 after they carried her out. She was a queen 

 reared by the bees after swarming. 



Indiana. 



Answer.— Probably it will be all right to 

 leave them just as they are, for most likely 

 there is no queen in the upper hive, and as 

 soon as the weather gets warm enough the 

 bees will unite at their leisure without any 

 interference on your part. I said most likely 

 there is no queen in the upper hive, for there 

 is a bare possibility that when the queen was 

 carried out, Nov. 20, that the bees had super- 

 seded her and had a younger laving queen in 

 the hive. So as soon as the bees get to Hying 



In wintering bees outside and noticing a 

 certain colony acting so very differently than 

 the rest as to demand prompt attention, it be- 

 ing one of my best colonies during the sum- 

 mer; also the weather being so cold outside 

 as to make it unwise to open it on the stand, 

 and with no prospect of a day warm enough 

 for the purpose, what barm would there be in 

 taking the colony into a room in the house 

 now, or say at any other time during the win- 

 ter, and looking after it? Will the bee6 set- 

 tle down in the hive again by nightfall so that 

 I can place them on their stand again? 



New York. 



Answer. — By taking sufficient pains you 

 can take a hive of bees into a warm room at 

 any time in the winter and open the hive. 

 The trouble is that the light and heat will stir 

 the bees up 60 that they will fly out of the 

 hive and settle elsewhere, especially on the 

 window. There will be less of this if the 

 hive be opened about dusk, for yuu can see in 

 the evening when it i6 too dark for the bees 

 to see; and if handled very gently at this time 

 of day they will be little inclined to fly out. 

 Then if the room be allowed to cool off, the 

 bees will be all quiet before morning. If any 

 have gone to the window, they can be got 

 back by means of two pieces of shingle or 

 pasteboard. 



Please understand, however, that it is not 

 in general advisable to open a hive in a warm 

 room in winter. You can hardly do it with- 

 out stirring up the bees more than is good 

 for them. Just now I don't think of any rea- 

 son there would be for it unless the bees 

 should be short of food ; and it is not neces- 

 sary in that case. If anything else is wrong, 

 it will probably be better to let the bees alone 

 till a warm day in spring. Still, as already 

 intimated, the bees can probably stand it to 

 have their hive opened if you can't wait. 



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