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I will now give each colony an extra hvie 

 filled with nice straight empty brood combs 

 exactly like the brood combs iu the hive be- 

 low. I will raise up the extra hive, under 

 which is a queen excluding honey board, and 

 as fast as nearly filled with honey and put 

 an empty one under it. Tliis I will repeat 

 as often as needed until the end of the honey 

 flow for the year 18'J:5. I will now take off 

 all surplus hives, examine each colony, and 

 give to each at least thirty pounds of honey 

 from the best filled coml>s in the extra hives, 

 set up the partitions at the rear of hives and 

 till with dry sawdust level with the top of the 

 hives. I will now let them stand until the 

 usual time to put bees in the cellar. At this 

 time I will remove the covers from all hives 

 and place on© of the shallow boxes of saw- 

 dust.with a feeder in it, on each hive, and 

 cover all with six inches of dry sawdust that 

 is to remain until cold weather is over in the 

 spring. During the winter, if the weather is 

 very severe, I will, once or so each month, 

 after January 1st, build a good fire in the 

 ample stove that will stand ready in the 

 house, and thus thoroughly warm the whole 

 building to let the bees remove a supply of 

 honey from the sealed combs to the brood 

 nest. In the spring, about April 1st, I will 

 remove all the top packing, level with the 

 top of the sawdust covers. This will leave 

 the feeders exposed, and I will feed each col- 

 ony 14 pound of syrup each evening as be- 

 fore. 



About May 1st, I will take down the par- 

 titions at the back of the hives, shovel the 

 sawdust into sacks, pack them over head 

 ready to use again in the fall. The sawdust 

 boxes will still remain witli the feeders on 

 the hi\»es, and tlie light stimulative feeding 

 will continue until lime to put on supers 

 again, when tlie feeders will be taken ofif 

 aud a saper iirepared with half drawn and 

 leveled combs be put on and the last year's 

 work repeated again. 



Tftis work will all be done in a comfort- 

 able house where I can work equally well in 

 good or bad weather without getting bedrag- 

 gled in wet grass, with no bee yard to care 

 for with its never ending demands, the hives 

 all free from any danger of molestation 

 from thieves, skunks, or other intruders, and 

 where I can do all the work in more comfort- 

 able surroundings and in less than one-half 

 the time required to do the same in an open 

 yard. 

 FoBESTviLLE, Minu., May, ir>, 18'.):^. 



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Eight Extea Pages. 



Gleanings did eventually notice and de- 

 scribe the Weed artificial comb. (See Has- 

 ty's article.) 



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Absokbing Cushions, with ventilation above 

 them (italics mine) are preferable to sealed 

 covers over the bees in winter. Gleanings 

 says this is shown by scores of letters re- 

 ceived. 



The Nobth Amekioan Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will meet in Chicago, October, 11, 12 

 and 13. It was a wise policy that fixed the 

 date so early, that those from a distance 

 may make their plans in advance to be pre- 

 sent at what will probably be the largest 

 gathering of bee-keepers ever witnetsed. 



As Agbicultuke is at the foundation of 

 all other kinds of business, so everything 

 connected with bee culture rests upon honey 

 production. When that ceases (o be profit- 

 able, queen rearing, the manufacturing and 

 sale of supplies and the publication of api- 

 icultural liturature will be dropped. Profit- 

 able honey production is the basis. 



Uncapping Machines are being talked of. 

 "Rambler" once suggested uncapping by 

 means of a wire heated by electricity. No 

 scheme for uncapping will be a success 

 that does not remove the cappings from 

 the comb. Simply cutting them loose will 

 not answer. The Bingham honey knife is 

 superior because its beveled edge raises the 

 cappings from the comb. A thin knife slips 

 under the cappings leaving them adhering 

 to the comb, from which they must be poked. 



