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is located. If she is in the lower story, 

 which will not be probable, all right. If 

 she is above, simply change places 

 with the two stories. At the time of 

 putting the queens below, if not al- 

 ready there, I shall give an additional 

 upper story of drawn combs, next to the 

 brood nest, but, of course, with the queen 

 excluder between it and the lower story 

 or brood nest. The drawn combs will be 

 spaced wide -eight combs in a ten-frame 

 super. As soon as the combs in the upper 

 stDry are sealed over, they will be freed 

 from bees by the use of a bee-escape, 

 and wheeled into the honey house, and 

 another super of empty comb placed next 

 to the brood nest. If at any time it be- 

 comes necsssary, in order to furnish 

 abundant room, to give more supers 

 before the honey in the topmost super is 

 sealed, they will be given, even if it be- 

 comes necessary to tier the hives up four 

 stories high. The empty supers will 

 always be given next to the brood nest. 

 By this management, the oldest, ripest 

 honey will always be in the top super, 

 where it can be removed to the best 

 advantage. 



As one apiary is here at n,y home, and 

 one at the home of my brother, and he 

 has three sons, it will be an easy matter 

 for us to keep some one at each apiary 

 during the swarming season, and at the 

 same time keep this "some one" busy 

 most of the time. When a swarm issues 

 it will be hived upon the old stand, given 

 plenty of empty combs, and, where in- 

 crease i^ d -sired, nuclei will be formed 

 from the brood combs of the first swarms 

 that issue, and then these nuclei built 

 up by the addition of combs from the 

 colonies that swarm later. Or we may 

 practice, to some extent, the Heddon 

 method of preventing after swarming. 

 Where no increase is desired, the swarms 

 ■//ill be hived on the old stands just the 

 same, and the hives of brood set upon the 

 top of some of the weaker colonies. 



The honey house at each yard will have 

 a partition through its center, the honey 

 stored in one side, and then v/armed up 



with a coal stove when re'idy to extract 

 it. We shall use the four-frame. Root, 

 automatic extractors, having one at each 

 yard. One man can work alone at each 

 yard very well, taking off the honey with 

 bee-escapes, hiving the swarms, warm- 

 ing up the honey and extracting it. At 

 one yard we shall extract in a cellar, 

 digging a sort of pit in the bottom, near 

 the extractor, in which to set the scales 

 and the tub with a strainer over it for 

 straining the honey. The honey will be 

 stored in new. 60-lb. square tin cans. 



At about the close of the breeding 

 season, say, the latter part of September, 

 we shall feed any colonies that are lacking 

 in stores. We shall feed sugar syrup 

 until each colony has at least 25 pounds 

 of stores. The fore part of Novemberthe 

 bees will be again placed in the cellars. 



The foregoing is a brief outline of our 

 work for the coming season, and is given 

 that we may receive criticisms and sug- 

 gestions. 



Articles Wanted by the Committee on 



Advertising Honey. 



The SI 408.27 raised by the Honey 

 Producers" League has been turned over 

 to th3 National Association; a committee 

 appointsd to spend that money in adver- 

 ing honey and otherwise advancing its 

 sales. The first plan to be put into 

 operation will be that of publishing in the 

 general press, short articles setting forth 

 the healthfulness, deliciousness. purity and 

 desirability of honey as a food. The pur- 

 pose for which these articles are written 

 need not appear upon the surface. It is 

 better that it should not appear, but there 

 ought to be something about each article 

 that would unconsciously lead the reader 

 to have'a batter opinion of honey, to have 

 greater confidence in its purity and 

 healthfu'ness, or knowledge of its economic 

 value as a food. That honey is not an 

 expansive food,' requires no cooking, no 

 swaetening nor other special preparation, 

 but is the "whole thing" ready for use. 

 That choice bakings sweetened v/ith 



