A YEAR AMONG THE BEES. 
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My quilts are now made nearly the same as the first I tried. 
Indian Head, or other hard twisted sheeting, is made into a 
bag open at one end. Into this is i*it six or eight thicknesses 
of newspaper, so cut or folded as not to come within an inch 
of the outside margin of the bag. If the paper is large 
enough to fill the bag, the shrinkage of the cloth will curl up 
the paper so it will not lie flat. The sheet is then stitched 
across through the centre, so as to hold the paper in its place. 
The sheet must be large enough to allow for shrinkage ; I 
should think it should be at least an inch too large each way. 
Possibly the cloth might be shrunk before making, but I am 
afraid the bees would gnaw this more. 
SHIFTING SUPERS. 
After a super has been on long enough for the bees to get 
well started, the most advanced sections being, perhaps, half 
filled, I turn it end for end. This for two reasons : The 
ventilation space at the back end has made slower work 
there ; and there is slower work in the north side of the super 
under which there are no brood-combs. I have thought of 
trying to remedy this by putting part of the brood-combs at 
each side, and filling between witli dummies. A few square 
inches of comb would have to be in the upper part of each 
dummy, so that the queen would go from one side to the 
other. I should like brood under the whole super. Ileddon’s 
shallow hive will work nicely, if one has no objection to it 
otherwise. 
TIERING UP SECTIONS. 
When the first super is perhaps half filled, I put an empty 
super under it. When the second is well advanced, a third is 
added, and more if necessary. This is, however, a matter of 
judgment, and cannot be made to conform to strict rules. 
If the bees of a strong colony crowd the first super and seem 
to be making rapid work, and there is every reason to expect 
that they can easily fill a second super, the second is given, 
although the first may have very little honey in it. On the 
