. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Pabllsbed Weekly, at per anaum. Sample Copy sent on Application, 36th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 16, 1896. No. No. 2.—Producing Comb Honey in Michigan. BV W. Z. HUTCHINSON. (Continued from page 211.) As the honey season comes on, every available cell will be filled with brood, pollen or honey, and little spurs of white comb will appear here and there along the top-bars, or in any space or inequality into which they can be crowded. The cells along next the top-bars will be whitened by the plastering on of little bits of new wax. Some of the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Pabllsbed Weekly, at per anaum. Sample Copy sent on Application, 36th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 16, 1896. No. No. 2.—Producing Comb Honey in Michigan. BV W. Z. HUTCHINSON. (Continued from page 211.) As the honey season comes on, every available cell will be filled with brood, pollen or honey, and little spurs of white comb will appear here and there along the top-bars, or in any space or inequality into which they can be crowded. The cells along next the top-bars will be whitened by the plastering on of little bits of new wax. Some of the stronger colonies may begin " hanging out," as nothing will crowd bees out of the hives quicker than a honey-flow. All these things show that the time is at hand for putting on the sections. It the flow should open very suddenly, or, at least, become very profuse soon after it opens, sheets of foundation in the sections may be as good as drawn combs, but when It comes on gradually, drawn combs, or, at least, a few sections of such in each super as " bait," as it is called, are a decided advan- tage. If I could have my choice, however, I would be glad to have all of the sections in the first super filled with drawn, or partly-drawn, combs. I have seen seasons in which I was well satisfied that a case of partly-drawn sections of comb to give a colony at first meant just cmc more case of finished honey. A colony given a case of combs would have those combs filled and be commenced upon a second case of sections by the time that a colony given simply foundation had made a start. This difference is more noticeable with Italians than with blacks. The Italians cling to the brood-nest until actually forced out of it. If a bee hatches and the queen doesn't stand ready to put in an egg, it is quite likely to be filled with honey. Give such a colony a case of sections filled with partly-drawn combs, and the bees will store honey in the combs just about as readily as i
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