. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 37 th. Year. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 1, 1897. No. tifeSE The Use of Drawn Combs in Sections. BT W. Z. HUTCHINSON. There is probably no topic ia which the apiarian world is more interested at present than in the one that I have used as the title for this article. We all know that, as usually raan- aeed, more extracted than comb honey can be produced— many say twice as much—but it is certain that much more can be produced. One reason for this, if not the main reason, is that in producing extracted honey no comb has to be built, that is, after a supply
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 37 th. Year. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 1, 1897. No. tifeSE The Use of Drawn Combs in Sections. BT W. Z. HUTCHINSON. There is probably no topic ia which the apiarian world is more interested at present than in the one that I have used as the title for this article. We all know that, as usually raan- aeed, more extracted than comb honey can be produced— many say twice as much—but it is certain that much more can be produced. One reason for this, if not the main reason, is that in producing extracted honey no comb has to be built, that is, after a supply has been obtained. I doubt if anything is lost In the building of comb, that is, if the wax for comb- building is produced at a loss, under ordinary conditions, but the trouble is that so much time is consumed in comb-building, that a short, sharp, but very bountiful flow of honey may be practically lost if the bees are compelled to build combs in which to store it. In this connection, comb foundation is a great help, but it is ?iot drau'ii comb, and cannot be such in much less than two days, and even ten days, in a short, abun- dant flow may mean a great deal. Drawn combs can be utilized at once. To my mind, the main reason why more extracted than comb honey is produced, is because in the former case abun- dant storage-room of drawn comb is always furnisht. If we could always have sections full of nice drawn combs, I see no reason why we could not produce exacily as much comb as ex- tracted honey. Mr. Heddon says ihau more extracted honey can be produced by using shallow extracting supers, and then tiering them up so rapidly, as the flow advances, that the bees do not fully seal the honey. This plan also largely saves in the work of uncapping. There may be something in this, but I see no reason why supers of sections may be rapidly tiered up in the same manner during a rapid flow, and then the capping of the combs completed later, after the rush is over. I have thus dwelt
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