212 DR. miller's 



Q. What do you think of putting down into the brood-cham- 

 ber say, perhaps two framefuls on each side? 



A. The plan is not used so much as formerly, if indeed it is 

 now used at all. If you leave the sections below to be finished, 

 you are likely to have pollen in them, and also to have the cap- 

 pings darkened. When sections have been put below it has gen- 

 erally been merely to get the bees started in them and then put 

 them up. But it is not advisable to put them below at all 



Q. Will partly-filled sections do for fall feeding in place of 

 sugar? Would they keep until next year if properly cared for? 



A. They will do nicely for fall feeding, and will keep well 

 for use the next year, or for five years later, after the bees have 

 cleaned them out in the fall. But unless the honey is thus cleaned 

 out in the fall, it is not likely you can keep them so as to be used 

 the next year. 



Q. I have a lot of sections that were on the hives last season, 

 but owing to the drouth, which caused a sudden stop in the honey- 

 flow, they were not completed. Some of them contained some 

 honey, which I allowed the bees to remove last fall, and merely 

 started to be drawn. (They had had full sheets of foundation in 

 the first place.) Shall I use these as they are this season or will 

 there be too much mid-rib to make the best honey? I have often 

 used the "go backs" for baits, using from one to four in a super, 

 but I have 20 to 30 supers full now. 



A, If you have unfinished sections that are fall-emptied and 

 in good condition, use them and be exceedingly thankful for every 

 one you have. Bees do not add to the mid-rib, no matter how 

 long sections are left on the hive; but there is danger if they are 

 left on too long in the fall that the bees will plaster them over 

 with propolis, in which case there is nothing to do but to cut out 

 and melt them up. 



Q. I would like to learn of a good plan to clean up sections 

 that are unfinished in the fall of the year. I have thought of tier- 

 ing up supers 12 or IS high, and let the bees rob them out, but as 

 m\- yard is close to the house and buildings, I do not like to do 

 it, and I don't know which is the better way. I have at present 

 105 colonies, and expect to increase to 175 this season. I had 

 about 2,000 of these sections, and am using them tor baits, and 

 find them excellent in starting the bees to work in the supers. 



A. I have had much experience in getting the bees to clean 

 up sections in the fall, and have found no better way than to let 

 the bees rob them out. If you pile them up, as you suggest, allow 

 an entrance large enough for a single bee for each 5 or 6 supers. 



