Sept. 4, 1J02. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



573 



(|i)eeii. In 2 or ;i diiys the rest of Mio hoes and 

 frames can be iraiisforred to llie nrw lilvu. 1 

 (lid it in this way on .(uiy .'i, willi cood suc- 

 cess. Tlie old Itiies wore (iueeril(!HK sinc(i May 

 10; they are all ;;oiie now. I tliinU if is the 

 safest to iiitroiiuce a new <|U(mmi. only tlie (jid 

 one must be taken away, and the liisi frairjes 

 must be willioiit brood. Anton .Simon, 



Linn Co., Iowa, Aug. IS. 



A Bulg-arian Beginner. 



It is not necessary to tell you that I am a 

 beginner in beekeeping, but 1 like it very 

 inueli. 



I am a teacher in the Orplian-liouse here, 

 in if livealxiut Kill children (70 lioys and 'A) 

 girls), and the larger ones like very nineh to 

 work with me in tlie apiary, whieli consists of 

 .S colonies in Ihidant-Hlatt liivea. 



In the Huljriiriaii lantcuage tliere are two or 

 three books or t;iiides for bee-keepers, anions 

 which the best is, Bertrand's " Bee-Keeper's 

 Almanac." D. C'nAK.\i,OFr. 



Bulgaria. 



Unfavorable Season. 



This has been a very unfavorable season for 

 the liee-keeper in this vicinity. Tlie month 

 of .lune was so wet that the bees stored very 

 little, but .July proved very favorable, and 

 those that were so situated as to catch the 

 milkweed How reaped a nice harvest. 



We are having very dry weather at present, 

 and unless we get rain soon there will be no 

 surplus from the fall How. 



I have about 10,000 pounds of white honey, 

 mostly extracted. I hope for better weather 

 soon. ■ Ira D. Baktlett. 



Charlevoix Co., Mich., Aug. IS. 



Very Poor Honey Crop. 



The honey crop is very poor in this local- 

 ity. Buckwheat and goldenrod are blossom- 

 ing, but the weather is so stormy and cloudy 

 that the bees cannot gather honey. 



A. W. Smith. 



Sullivan Co., New York, .\ug. II. 



Those Partially Filled Sections. 



As the lime of the year draws near when 

 the disposition of partially filled sections be- 

 comes a question of importance to the aver- 

 age bee-keeper, I think the plan I used last 

 year will be of interest, especially as it was 

 very successful. 



When the honey-flow ceased I took all the 

 unfinished sections and divided them into two 

 lots, according to the amount of honey they 

 contained; those that were half completed or 

 more in one lot, and those that had less than 

 half in the other. The first lot I placed in 

 supers in the ordinary way. and the others I 

 put loosely in supers, breaking some of them 

 so that the honey would run from the comb. 

 This was to excite the bees to get them to do 

 the work I intended them to do when I was 

 ready for them. 



I then nailed a lath on the top of a bottom- 

 board in such a manner as to form a bee- 

 space, leaving an opening of two iachesin 

 the front for an entrance. A patent bottom- 

 board will do as well if tne entrance is con- 

 tracted to two inches. 



I placed one of the supers, which had the 

 sections in loosely, over a strong colony, and 

 left it on until about noon the next day, when 

 I removed it to the prepared boHoni-board, 

 with what bees it contained, and tiered up 

 several other supers containing the same class 

 of sections on top of it, and liuished with a 

 cover, being careful that there was no other 

 opening for the bees except that which was 

 made intentionally on the bottom-board, and 

 on the colony I placed a super with the sec- 

 tions in properly. 



Results began to show immediately. At 

 first I thought there was going to be a case of 

 old-fashioned robbing, but in a few minutes 

 things quieted down except the bees from the 

 colony which was intended should do the 

 work. They worked the balance of the day, 



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