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It is quite likely that there would be, 

 but I would not want my section-cases 

 placed in such position, for other rea- 

 sons. — C. H. DiBBERN. 



I would think yes ; but I do not see 

 why any one would think of asking such 

 a question, much less of performing 

 such an act.— Jas. A. Stone. 



There is liable to be ; but if there is 

 room for pollen above, as well as brood, 

 very little pollen will be found in the 

 comb honey. — J. H. Larbabee. 



I have never tried the experiment. 

 But judging from bee-instinct, I should 

 infer that there would be more pollen 

 next the brood. — J. P. H. Brown. 



I don't know. Why not put the upper 

 super with brood next above the queen- 

 excluder? Wouldn't that catch all the 

 pollen sure ? Wouldn't it depend a good 

 deal upon the size of the brood-chamber? 

 — Eugene Secor. 



No. The bees will store the pollen 

 near their brood, and as the young bees 

 emerge from the cells, they — the cells — 

 will be filled with pollen ; but your sec- 

 tions will be travel-stained and spoiled. 

 — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



I never tried the experiment, but 

 would think that it would increase the 

 chances for pollen in the sections, es- 

 pecially if the brood was young enough 

 to need pollen, as it is the nature of bees 

 to store pollen as near the brood as they 

 can. — S. I. Freeborn. 



Yes, and the frequent travel of the 

 bees over the comb will soil the white 

 cappings more or less. Its advantages 

 hardly offset the disadvantages ; coax 

 the bees into the super, by the use of 

 partly-filled combs — liberal starters and 

 the like. If there is an odor about the 

 case, wash it with sweetened peppermint 

 water. — W. M. Barnum. 



I have often tried the experiment, and 

 the pollen gives no trouble. "Travel- 

 stain " is the main objection to the plan, 

 hence I put the super of brood-combs on 

 the excluder, and the section-case on 

 top of the latter. This is my method, in 

 a nut-shell, of preventing swarming, 

 and which I have described several times 

 in the American Bee Journal. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



I have practiced this plan of placing a 

 super of sections betv/een brood-cham- 

 bers of brood extensively, and can say 

 no. Neither do the bees store bee-bread 

 in them, even when the queen is in the 

 upper brood-chamber, although all the 

 pollen is carried through the super of 

 sections. Exceptions will occur now 



and then, as well as in the use of a sin- 

 gle shallow brood-chamber with queen- 

 excluder and sections above, in which 

 an occasional cell of bee-bread will be 

 found in the sections ; and the same is 

 true of the ten-frame Langstroth hive. — 

 G. L. Tinker. 



I don't knov/. Who does ? Has any 

 one ever tried such an experiment ? If 

 so, with what object in view, and what 

 good could or did it accomplish ? Unless 

 the experiment was tried during several 

 seasons, and with several colonies, no 

 correct answer could be obtained ; and 

 if one had the time, and cared to take 

 it, with the trouble involved, I hardly 

 think it would be found to pay.— J. E. 

 Pond. 



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<JonTe]itioii IVotices. 



Wisconsin.— The next annual meeting of 

 the WisconsiD Bee-Keepers'Association willbe 

 held at Madison, on Feb. 8tb and 9th. 18P5. 



Madison, Wis. J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec. 



Tennessee.— The next annual meetins- of 

 .the Bast Tennessee. Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at Whitesburg-, Tenn.. beginning' 

 on Thursday. August 16, 18f)4. All members 

 and other interested in bee-culture are in- 

 vited to attend. H. F. Coleman, Sec. 



Sneedville, Tenn. 



Kansas.— There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion at the apiaries of J. C. Balch, 7 miles 

 south of Bronsou, to be held June 15 and 16. 

 Bring well-fllled baskets and we wiU have a 

 glorious good time. Plenty of pasture for 

 horses, and shade and good water for man 

 and beast. J. C. Balch, Sec. 



Bronson, Kans. 



