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is usually on. A Aveek 

 later all queen -cells 

 are cut from the up- 

 per story; the bees 

 from the brood-nest 

 are now shaken on 

 either foundation or 

 drawn combs (if on 

 foundation one eomb 

 is placed in the center 

 to catch pollen and 

 eggs), queen-exeluder 

 replaced, and, if need- 

 ed, another super of 

 empty combs added: 

 ujiper stories are re- 

 placed on top, and 

 what was the i)rood- 

 nest (eight combs of 

 brood just shaken) is 

 jjlaced on top of the 



entire hive, making the colony four or five 

 stories high. 



If more supers are needed later, they are 

 added just above the queen-excluder, but no 

 further attention is paid to the brood-nest 

 unless they have been marked for requeen- 

 ing. Our surplus is entirely from clover ; 

 and as we have a stock of about 12,000 



The brood-cluiuiber is 



finally placed aljove the supers — a part of the 

 plan to prevent swarming. 



Mr. Running's apiary, taken just as tlio riowd was gatherin 

 for a field meeting. 



drawn combs we do not do any extracting 

 until the flow is over, when all honey is 

 taken off Avith bee-escajDes and extracted. 

 We work six yards, and do not have any 

 swarms excepting occasional supersedure 

 colonies. 



Tlie one picture showing people standing 

 among bees is a view o-f this same apiary 

 taken at a field meet- 

 ing before all the 

 crowd had arrived. 

 Notice the school in 

 the background; also 

 notice the dandelions 

 in bloom in the yard, 

 and feeders on some 

 colonies. Alt ho there 

 was an abundance of 

 dandelion bloom last 

 spring, the weather 

 was so cold the bees 

 could not work it. 

 Filion, Mich. 



FOURTEEN DOLLARS' WORTH OF SUGAR EVERY THREE DAYS, AND 



RAIN BETWEEN SPELLS 



BY S. H. BURTON 



The season of 1915 in Southern Indiana 

 \\;is the worst known for several years. I 

 have been keeping bees for seven years; 

 and while this is not long compared to 

 others, still I have never seen a season that 

 was so full of promises and disappoint- 

 ments as the one just i^ast. Bees came out 

 of their winter quarters in fine shape for 



tlie season of 1914, having been a banner 

 honey year with us, so that the hives were 

 full of stores to carry them thru. (These 

 stores were principally aster; but I have 

 never observed any bad effects from bees 

 wintering on aster honey.) 



With the opening of spring the beesbied 

 up rapidly; and after fruit-bloom it looked 



