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DR. MILLER J 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 15 high, and let the bees rob them out, but as 
my 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 for 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. 
