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escape under, and remove and clean and 

 crate, ready for the market. The combs 

 that are not sealed, ready to crate, are 

 put back into a super, and when full it is 

 given to some colony that needs room, to 

 be finished. This process of giving supers, 

 as I have explained, is kept up until the 

 season is tv/o-thirds over, at which time 

 my fourth visit is planned. 



Remus, Mich., Jan. 21, 190Z. 

 (To be continued.) 



[It is seldom I have occasion to criticise 

 anything written by Mr. Townsend, and 

 it is possible that, with his experience, 1 

 might agree with him, but there are one 

 or two points in his method of tiering up 

 and removing finished sections, upon 

 which 1 would be glad to know his rea- 

 sons. 



Why put the second super on top, leave 

 it until it is one-fourth completed, then 

 place if next to the brood nest? Why not 

 place it next to the brood nest in the first 

 place ? The same might be asked in 

 regard to the third super, why put it on 

 top and remove it to the bottom ? I sus- 

 pect the answer will be that this method 

 prevents any break between the brood 



nest and the super. But 1 thought the 

 extracting combs at the side prevented 

 this break ? Possibly this isn't the reason. 

 Perhaps the object is to push along to 

 completion as rapidly as possible, the first 

 super of sections. This changing about 

 of supers is a lot of work in a large apiary, 

 and I feel sure that so practical a man as 

 Mr. Townsend would not follow the plan 

 unless he found it profitable. Bro. Town- 

 send, give us the reason. 



Then there is the removal of a super 

 when only three-fourths of the sections 

 are completed. Seems to me, when there 

 are extracting combs at the side, and the 

 sections all begun at the same time, as 

 Bro. Townsend tells us so enthusiastically, 

 that there would be so little difference in 

 the sections that not much time would be 

 gained in removing a super when three- 

 fourths completed. The combs certainly 

 would not have time to become travel- 

 stained. If the season were nearing the 

 close, and there was anxiety to secure the 

 rapid capping of all unsealed sections, I 

 can see a reason for thus wishing to crowd 

 the bees upon as few combs as possible, 

 but in the fore part of the season — friend 

 Townsend. why do you do it? — Editor.] 



Some Griticisms of the National and 



Its Officers. 



ARTHUR C. MILLFR. 



The best critics are they. 



Who, with what they gainsay. 

 Offer another and better way. 



DEAR Mr. Hutchinson:— In the Aug. 

 Review you say that "The Am. Bee- 

 Keeper embraces every opportunity, and 

 sometimes manufactures one, for attack- 

 ing the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. Because the publishers of the Bee- 

 Keepe'' are furnishing goods at wholesale 



to a company of Eastern bee-keepers is 

 no excuse for this journal to be continual- 

 ly belittling and misrepresenting the o,.ly 

 National organization in this country." 



To the foregoing I beg leave to make 

 reply. First the A. B. K. never "manu- 

 factures" opportunities for attacking the 

 National, nor do I consider criticism of 

 the doings of its officers or the shortcom- 



