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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

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AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS 



E. D. TOWXSEND, Managing Editor, Nortiistar, Mich. 

 WESLEY FOSTER, Assistant Editor, Boulder, Colo. 



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MANAGING OFFICE. NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN 



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VOL. XXVI. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, OCTOBER 1, 1913 No. 10 



Are your bees well supplied with winter .stores? Have they 2-) 

 or 30 pounds of nicely sealed, rich, ripe, ropey stores, preferably 

 that £^athered early in the season, to winter on? Ours have, and 

 I will tell you how we manage to secure this condition, then each 

 one during the leisure of winter prepare for another season. Very 

 simple! Just provide a shallow set of extracting- supers for each 

 swarm and give them to the bees at the opening of the clover flow, 

 and there you arc! To start the bees to work nicely above and dis- 

 courage swarming as much as possible, the first super given is one 

 of those containing our regular extracting combs. As the bees need 

 more room, one of those shallow sets containing frames filled with 

 full sets of foundation is placed under the full one. As our supers 

 are all above queen excluders, those supers of winter stores are 

 sealed solid full of this ripe early honey. Do }-ou suppose we "lay 

 awake nights" during winter, wondering if some swarm that has 

 worked for us so faithfully during summer were getting short of 

 stores? Guess not. We know they have enough to last them when 

 each swarm has one of these 25-lb. supers of honey above their reg- 

 ular amount in the hive below. 



How do you feel about yo^c bees? Are they well supplied with 

 winter stores? If not, why not? Get "busy." The time is now 

 short when you can feed liquid feed. 



