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and the moisture from the bees would condense on it and fall in 

 drops on the bees. To avoid this, have a super or some kind of a 

 rim o\er the hive, and have this filled with rags, crumpled news- 

 papers, planer shavings, or something of the kind; this filling 

 resting on burlap which is directly over the frames. Even with 

 the covers just as you have t4iem, you could pile a lot of packing 

 on top of the covers, and this would help a great deal, for it 

 would make the sides of the hive colder than the cover, and the 

 moisture would settle on the sides instead of the top. It would 

 be a good plan for you to find within ten or twenty miles experi- 

 enced beekeepers who winter successfully, and find how they 

 winter. 



Sections, Clean. — Q. How would you keep the section-boxes 

 white and clean? The sections I took out were all co\ered with 

 propolis, and were a sorry looking sight. How can this be helped? 



A. In some supers the sections are protected so that the bees 

 cannot get at much of the wood to soil it, but with the best that 

 can be done thej- will be able to get at some of the wood, and the 

 bees are sure to crowd glue into the cracks that must be made by 

 covering up, for it is their nature to crowd glue into any crack 

 not big enough for them to crawl through, while a planed sur- 

 face fully exposed will get very little glue. I prefer T-supers 

 which leave bottom and top of the sections entirely exposed, and 

 then they arc scraped with a steel cabinet scraper and sand- 

 papered. 



Sections, Granulated Honey in. — Q. I had a large number of 

 partly filled sections last season, and the honey granulated before 

 I found time to extract it. Can I put these sections into the su- 

 pers in that condition, or would you advise setting them out for 

 the bees to clean out before usingi 



A. Don't think of putting them on again unless you can have 

 the honey cleaned out of them thoroughly by the bees, and next 

 time have that done in the fall. 



Sections, Kind to Use. — Q. As the price of sections is very 

 high, and section lumber very cheap in my neighborhood, do you 

 think it would pay me to buy a machine to make sections? 



A. No; there is probably not a man in the country who makes 

 sections only for his own use. A complete outfit of section ma- 

 chinery would cost several thousand dollars, probably. 



Q. Do you prefer beeway sections to plain, and why? 



A. I prefer beeways because they are more easily handled 



