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the price is rapidly lowered with each grade. 

 With my present m nagemeut I not only 

 greatly increase the yield but I get all No. 1 

 honey, and for all of which I get the highest 

 market price. In times past, like friend 

 Green, (there, now, I've "went and done it " 

 and told his name) I worked by all manner 

 of means to get all my sections finished so 

 they would sell at some price. I then con- 

 tracted the surplus room as the season of 

 surplus was drawing to an end, and this 

 off times caused swarming and much work 

 and loss. 1 now give unstinted room to the 

 end of the white harvest, not even desiring 

 that all the sections be capped. The bees 

 are thus left to work to their full capacity 

 in gathering and storing honey until the end 

 of the flow. 



At the end of the basswood harvest I re- 

 move all the section cases, and, as it is now 

 a time of honey dearth, this temporary 

 severe contraction never causes swarming. 

 These last supers of sections are now at 

 once emptied, the finished sections crated 

 and the unsealed and partly sealed ones ex- 

 tracted. This extracted honey, when prop- 

 erly cured, is very fine table honey, and I 

 now have a ready home cash-market for all 

 I may have of it, at nearly the price of comb 

 honey, never having sold it for less than 1232 

 cents per pound. 



This, you see, will leave many sections of 

 finished, or at least partly drawn, combs. I 

 now return these combs to the supers, gen- 

 erally alternating them with sections tilled 

 full of foundation, using separators between 

 each two combs. These separators have the 

 bee-space in the separator and a slot in their 

 centers % inch wide their entire length thus 

 giving the bees free passage from section to 

 section. The supers are returned to strong 

 swarms to haye the empty combs tilled with 

 fall honey, and the foundation ones drawn 

 out into comb. 



Early in the fall honey flow the supers are 

 again taken oft" without any regard as to 

 whether they are tinished or not. It is done 

 early so that the bees may fill their hives 

 with stores for winter. Let me say here that 

 I give many colonies brood combs, in place 

 of sections, to be filled with honey to supply 

 swarms that may need stores for winter. 

 All these sections of fall honey are now again 

 extracted and the honey put away to feed the 

 bees again the coming spring, and thus raise 

 a new army of workers for the next white 

 honey season. 



I now return the empty combs to the su- 

 pers and they are all set out at one time on 

 a warm clear day to be cleaned by the bees 

 of every particle of honey. I set each super 

 so both bottom and top are entirely exposed, 

 and the bees can enter them in any number 

 without hindrance. The combs are then 

 never torn in the struggle, as there is room 

 for all. In the evening after all the bees 

 have left the supers are removed to the iron 

 curing house, and, the next morning, the 

 bees finding every thing gone, make no com- 

 motion, in fact, they would not even if the 

 supers had not been removed, for the honey 

 had all been removed and a bee understands 

 this as well or better than many bee keepers. 

 Now, friends, if these supers had been piled 

 up so but one bee could enter at a time, 

 there would have been several day's struggle 

 before they would have been cleaned and the 

 entire yard would have been kept in com- 

 motion all this time, the bees stinging every 

 thing within sight. (Mr. Editor, please 

 don't tell Dr. Miller that I said this.) 



We now take the comb leveler, with proper 

 tables to work on, into the curing house and 

 all the combs are carefully leveled and set 

 away to use in snatching another large crop 

 of gilt edged white section honey the coming 

 year. 



FoBESTViLLE, Minn. April 26, 1894. 



Getting Rid of Foul Brood Without Shaking 

 the Bees Off the Combs or Interrupt- 

 ing Them in Their Labor. 



M. M. BALDBIDGE. 



mHE object Of 

 jT this article is 

 not to discuss the 

 cause or causes of 

 foul - brood, but 

 simply to give my 

 plan of getting rid 

 of the malady after 

 it has once got a 

 foot - hold in the 

 apiary. The plan 

 I propose to give 

 is both very simple 

 and practical, and is based upon the belief 

 that the germs of foul-brood are carried from 

 a diseased colony to a healthy one, or to an 

 empty hive, both through the honey and the 

 bee-bread. The plan is, therefore, simijly to 



