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just a few small holes in the can top was sufficient for slow, stim- 

 ulative feeding. But for fast feeding for winter stores a larger fric- 

 tion top can can be used or two of them on a colony, and quite a 

 lot of small holes can be punched in the lid. The can may be raised 

 a little higher by cutting a circle out of a piece of heavy pasteboard 

 and placing it under the can. 



Early in the spring a colony can be kept very warm by putting 

 leaves or chaff on top of the paper around the feeder, and the feed 

 can be kept warm in this way by using a hive body on top. 

 Dushore, Pa. 



[Please take note that the boxes of cappings are not placed on top of the hive, 

 out in the open, where bees from all colonies can reach them. They are placed in 

 an upper story, and are only accessible to the bees in the hive in which they are 

 placed. 



At first I thought that there would be some danger from robbing by this 

 plan, but if they are first put on in the evening I don't know but the danger would 

 be small. Of course if it was done during a honey flow therewould be no danger 

 at any time. You can easily try it out. anyway. In a private letter Mr. Kernan 

 writes me that he has tried the plan two seasons and likes it very well.] 



Ridding Supers of Bees. 



L. R. DOCKERY. 



'^WX the July issue of the Review for 1909, [Mr. Elmer Hutchin- 

 Jjl son, Mr. S. E. Miller and Mr. F. B. Cavanagh had much to 

 say about ridding extracting supers of bees. Each one had a 

 system different to the others. 



I suspect from the way they do things that all of them use a 

 full depth hive body for a super. If so I should think Mr. Hutch- 

 inson's is the most perfect system. However, Mr. Miller's is the 

 most like our own. We use the ideal super 5J/s inches deep, which 

 has many advantages over a full depth one. \\'e have no use for 

 queen excluding honey boards and bee escapes. A\ ith this super 

 only a few puff's of smoke are needed to drive most of the bees 

 down and out before taking it off'. 



A trick we have learned, is to wait until the working force has 

 gone to the field before beginning the operation of taking off the 

 supers. In doing this we avoid the robbing nuisance. Then we 

 begin first by taking off' the cover and blowing a few whiff's of 

 smoke down between the frames. Then I turn to another, taking the 

 cover off, giving them some smoke down between the frames, and 

 then to another and another, until there are five or six with their 

 covers off', and all having been smoked, most of the bees have gone 

 down. I then return to the first one that I gave a smoke shock 

 and give them another, and treat the others in a like manner, then 

 aofain I return to the first, and if all the bees are not out I give 



