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Fig. 3. — Mr. Mills' apiary on a knoll overlooking the town of New Brunswick, N. J. 



top of the hives so as to give the bees space 

 in which to pass from frame to frame, up 

 over the cluster where it is warm. Over the 

 excluder he si3reads a burlap bag or enamel 

 cloth, and fills in the two-inch space above 

 with sawdust and planer shavings. Mr. Mills 

 thus has the advantage of a double-walled 

 hive for wintering, and at the same time has 



Fig. 4. 



-Winter case for holding packing material aroimd regular 

 single-walled hives. 



his light single-walled hives for summer 

 manipulations. His winter case is shown in 

 Fig. 4. 



Whenever Mr. Mills has had colonies light 

 in stores he has fed them successfully dur- 

 ing the winter by placing a slab of hard 

 uncrystallized sugar candy a S23ace above 

 the brood-frames, and covering the same 

 with burlap and saw- 

 dust to retain the heat 

 of the cluster. 



To the question as to 

 how much his bees 

 paid him, Mr. Mills 

 replied, "It varies with 

 the season. Some years 

 the bees do surprising- 

 ly well, while other 

 years they don't store 

 much surplus. I don't 

 have a very good loca- 

 tion here, for the bees 

 get practically nothing 

 from clover. However, 

 I can usually count on 

 a fall flow of dark 

 honey. This dark hon- 

 ey sells here among my 

 neighbors just as well 

 as the best clover hon- 

 ey — in fact, better; for 



