. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 680 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Sept. 28,1905 Cleaning Up Unfinished Sections, Etc. BY EDWIN BEVINS THAT colony of strenuous bees I wrote about early in the season had corapletfd about 120 sections of honey at the end of our short white honey-flow. At that time I re- moved all supers from the hive except the one next the brood- chamber. This had a few partly-filled sections in it. And thereby hangs a tale, or tall. Take your choice. The tale (or tail) is as follows : When, a few days ago, I wanted some sections of sealed honey to fill up the last case ne
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 680 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Sept. 28,1905 Cleaning Up Unfinished Sections, Etc. BY EDWIN BEVINS THAT colony of strenuous bees I wrote about early in the season had corapletfd about 120 sections of honey at the end of our short white honey-flow. At that time I re- moved all supers from the hive except the one next the brood- chamber. This had a few partly-filled sections in it. And thereby hangs a tale, or tall. Take your choice. The tale (or tail) is as follows : When, a few days ago, I wanted some sections of sealed honey to fill up the last case needed to iill up a crate for ship- ment, I went to this super and thought I saw enough sealed sections to fill the case. I put a Porter bee-escape under and waited awhile for the bees to get out. When I went again the bees were not out, but the honey was. The bees had found a hole In one rear upper corner large enough for the passage of one or two bees at a time, and they had traveled out and in, and in and out, till they had put about all of the honey below. My first thought was that 1 must be one of the fool bee-keep- ers which Dr. Miller had occasion to mention not long ago. But there had been no robbing of the super by bees that did not belong to the hive. I had in the honey-house a large number of supers filled with unfinished sections In all stages of development. I filled a super with the sections nearest completion, and put It on the hive with nothing between It and the brood-frames. Then I lilled the robbed-out super with sections less complete, and put it on above the bee-escape, the passage to which was closed. A solid piece of board would have been just as good. Then the bees went on with their robbing. The work goes on so quietly that the other bees in the yard are not attracted. I get one, and sometimes two, supers cleaned out every 24 hours. I have added supers of sections below the escape till now there are three. The brood chamber was, of course, filled in the e
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