110 had granulated sugar syrup for feed. Most of the 
feeding done by last of September and have sealed it over very well. 
Winter passages made before feeding nearly all closed. The one so
Busy with pollen has three frames with much brood, and eggs, enough to 
make say 1500 bees. This colony has greatly increased in numbers the 
last six weeks. How will seven of my 10 stocks have brood, two 
of them on three combs, how will they winter with so many young bees, can 
compare them in this respect with [illegible] where no young bees have hatched 
for over a month. Weather changed yesterday to much cooler 84 to 44 degrees 
about ten days ago I thought of a plan for using [illegible] 
zinc to better advantage then any way I know of it having been used 
let the bottom board be in two pieces, to fit with tongue and 
groove into ends of hive [illegible] boards too 
warp and swell without harm to boards [illegible] 
zinc to be let into [illegible] in the two [illegible] to be 
say wide enough for four [illegible] more or less if found 
best, fastened with a few [illegible] this too [illegible] first as a good 
[illegible] to keep queen out of upper stories, when one hive set on the 
top of another. If desired to [illegible] piece of zinc 
a good hot weather ventilator so that if upper cover is [illegible] 
[illegible] no matter how many [illegible] comb honey 
[illegible] in section are [illegible] in honey board. This plan 
[illegible] chiefly little [illegible] much wood and no change in [illegible] 
any warp or swell of wood. Gives plenty of air [illegible] are shut in 
[illegible] robbers like to enter a hive by as short a cut as possible 
the Datant dry grass plan hinders them much. Might not a cheap and 
simple robber guard be made on the same principle. [illegible] say 
two pieces of wood 1 x 1 1/2 x 6 against [illegible] 
[illegible] let bees in easily, middle one maybe zinc includer let into 
[illegible] not thought out yet the idea to give bees a good line of battle 
[illegible] I think includer or something of [illegible] so that of a 
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