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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 over 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 them, 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 covered 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 they 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-supcrs 
which leave bottom and top of the sections entirely exposed, and 
then they are 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 using? 
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 
