. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. 54 B1GGLJ-: I3KE BOOK COMH AND EXTRACTED HONEY 55 I foundation in the little section boxes, as the bees will enter them iniicli more readily than if only starters are used. Fasten each sheet in securely by aid of one of the fasteners sold for that purpose, leaving just a little space at the bottom of the sec- tion box to allow for sagging:. When the super is filled with sections properly. HANI! EXTRACTOR IN prepared, lift the lid of the hive and place the super on it. putting the hive l
. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. 54 B1GGLJ-: I3KE BOOK COMH AND EXTRACTED HONEY 55 I foundation in the little section boxes, as the bees will enter them iniicli more readily than if only starters are used. Fasten each sheet in securely by aid of one of the fasteners sold for that purpose, leaving just a little space at the bottom of the sec- tion box to allow for sagging:. When the super is filled with sections properly. HANI! EXTRACTOR IN prepared, lift the lid of the hive and place the super on it. putting the hive lid on the super,—and all is ready. In a few days carefully examine it and if the honey continues to come in and the section boxes are nearly filled, prepare another super for the hive in the same way and add it to the hive, placmg it between the super nearly completed and the hive body proper, but never put it on top of the first super. li" ihe flow continues, it is possible to place as many as tour supers at a time on a strong colony, adding ihem onlv as needed. As soon as the combs are capped over remove them at once; nothing is gained by leavmg them on till the end of the season, as they become travel-stained and the white caps unsightly. The best way to take the supers off is to place a board with a Porter bee-escape in it between the hive bodv and the supers, and in twenty-four hours the bc'es will have gone through it below and the supers can then be taken off without the bees to bother. , , r i Some beekeepers simply blow clouds of smoke down through the supers and in this way drive the bees below, but it is a poor practise and is open to the objection that it makes the bees uncap some of the cells to fill up with honey. When removed, the sections should be scraped of anv propolis or bee-glue that has been deposited on the little boxes and the honey placed in a warm, dry place where the bees can not get at it. Under no circumstances store it in the cellar or other
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