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honev. I found the hives that he depended on for surplus in the 

 "attic" of his house where the bees winter very perfectly and the 

 temperature is much above that out of doors. During the early spring 

 and as fast as the bees increased he would add supers to give room 

 for his "army of workers.'' as he called them, whether honey was 

 coming in or not. He informed me further that very little surplus 

 honev was secured from colonies managed in the ordinary way. 

 Xow it seems evident that these excessively strong colonies must 

 be managed somewhat differently from less populous hives. First, 

 they must be better supplied with honey and, secondly, they must 

 have more room or combs of brood taken and given to less populous 

 hives. 



Xote. please, what ^Ir. Gra\'enhost says on page 89 of the 

 Ren'iew : "To remove the trouble from over populousness we have 

 only to have a hive that is large enough, or that can be made large 

 enough, and see that it is enlarged before it really becomes too 

 populous. If we have a hive that cannot be enlarged, then we 

 must remove some of the sealed brood and give it to some colony 

 not so populous. Managed in this way the whole apiary will be 

 in the best condition to take advantage of the honey flow when it 

 comes, instead of having in it a few giants surrounded by dwarfs."' 

 So I would get my colonies strong as early as I can, providing I 

 can carry them through till the main harvest with honey. Many 

 years such colonies will secure enough more early honey to make 

 up what they consume above the average colony. In other years 

 they will not, and we must either discourage them or feed ii they 

 are short. 



"Though near the end of the harvest, ought we to discourage 

 breeding?" I used to begin three or four weeks ahead, but find 

 myself shortening the time and have come to doubt if it pays to 

 discourage breeding very much at any time during the summer. I 

 have killed a good many queens the last of June and early July to 

 cut oft' breeding or the rearing of bees to consume honey during 

 August, but have come to doubt the value of doing so. I notice 

 colonies used for extracting where all the honey stored during the 

 summer is left till September, and the bees can breed to their 

 heart's content, are far stronger and better at the beginning of 

 winter than those that have been queenless for a month during the 

 summer. 



Yes, they will consume a great deal more honey during the 

 winter, which is the other side of the question. 



Owing to the lack of space the second installment of the "Jeffrey's" articles, 

 and the beginning of "Do Bees Reason?" had to be held over for the March issue. 



