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honey supers on in April. These bees are "handicapped" so much 

 by this super space above that they never get that crowded feeling 

 so detrimental to the idea of getting one's bees to enter the season 

 in that ideal condition so much sought but so rarely ever acquired 

 —bees that work, not sulk or swarm. I have no doubt but what 

 with this management so few swarms would issue that it would not 

 pay one to watch and hive them. 



With very little experience along this line, my opinion would 

 be that ]\Ir. Britton carries this feature rather too far; that just as 

 good results would be secured were the supers given say a month 

 before the opening of the clover or raspberry flow. 



Sections would be somewhat soiled by being on the hives so 

 long before the opening of the surplus season, and I would suggest 

 extracting combs either full or half depth for these supers. 



It must be remembered that bees have the swarming fever long 

 before the starting of queen cells. About the first indication of 

 swarm preparation is when the colony begins to rear drones. 



Some experiments along the line of leaving a part of one's 

 bees without any great amount of spring protection, and supers 

 given during say six weeks before the opening of the main honey 

 flow, a la Britton, might not be a bad experiment to make during 

 next spring. — Town send. 



Why Not Have a Bee-Keeper in Each State Write for the Leading 



Farm Paper. 



I have before me a clipping taken from the Mkhiy;an Faruu^*- 

 naming that a series of articles on foul brood written by a Michigan 

 bee-keeper will appear in future numbers. Since the clipping was 

 printed those articles have appeared, and I wish to say that I believe 

 them a movement in the right direction. Farm papers are willing 

 and anxious to get authentic articles on bee-keeping from the bee- 

 keepers themselves. Their trouble has been to get articles not too 

 technical. So many writers think they must go into the up-to-date 

 methods telling of queen rearing, hive manipulation, etc., something 

 which the average farmer does not understand and will not do, hence 

 the article is way above their heads. For that reason the good plain 

 writer telling the general principles of bee-keeping will meet with 

 better success than if he tried to go into the technical part. 



The articles on foul brood in the Michigan Farmer are written 

 by N. F. Gute, Shiawassee County, and I must commend Mr. Gute 

 for the way he has placed this matter before the reading public. Why 

 not have each National Branch select one of its members to con- 

 tribute to the farm press, getting a new contributor for each year. 

 The convention could suggest topics if it was thought advisable. 



