. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 278 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 18, 1891. these is another moot point with bee-keepers, among whom we have always advocated their use when working for extracted honey, and now that we are in a measure compelled, by change of location, to do some sectioning, we find our- selves with excluders below all our surplus chambers, whether section-boxes or combs for extracting. In our own case the excluders are set close on to the top bars, with the length of the perforations, as usual, running across the spaces between the frames, for the reaso
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 278 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 18, 1891. these is another moot point with bee-keepers, among whom we have always advocated their use when working for extracted honey, and now that we are in a measure compelled, by change of location, to do some sectioning, we find our- selves with excluders below all our surplus chambers, whether section-boxes or combs for extracting. In our own case the excluders are set close on to the top bars, with the length of the perforations, as usual, running across the spaces between the frames, for the reasons al- ready given on p. 256, and once the bees pass through the excluders into the free space below and around the frames in which the sections hang in our new section box, there has been no hesitation in their taking full possession of the section? and starting work. We lay stress on the need for keeping sections as warm as pos- sible in the early part of the season, using news- papers as coverings over the quilts above and around the sides of boxes, in addition to slips of paper between the junction of hive and section box, for the purpose of maintaining the heat therein. Various methods are adopted to induce bees to take possession of sections, one of the most successful being the insertion of a square of comb with honey in it—freshly gathered if possible—in one of the section boxes. The bees pass through into the upper chamber attracted by the odour of the honey, and (as the bee- keeper hopes) stay there. As to the most suit- able or proper time for setting on sections, no date can be given. So much depends on the honey resources of the district—to say nothing of the preparedness or condition of the stock— that no guidance can go beyond saving that when the hive is fairly full of bees and honey is being gathered surplus chambers should at once be put on, and the precaution as to maintaining warmth, already indicated, carefully attended to. Using Ready-combed Sectio
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