. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. August, 191u. American l^ee Journal tract by duiuinies or otherwise. The beekeeijer, it a comb honey pro- ducer, who has not at the end of the clover flow a quantity of unfinished sections is indeed fortunate. But if he has he may have them quickly fin- ished up if he will sort them out, place them in supers, put two or three at a time on these selected colonies and feed good honey, all the bees will take. It is so satisfactory to me. that I don't care if I have ever so many unfinished sections. I know that by feeding I can change the unsala- ble prod
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. August, 191u. American l^ee Journal tract by duiuinies or otherwise. The beekeeijer, it a comb honey pro- ducer, who has not at the end of the clover flow a quantity of unfinished sections is indeed fortunate. But if he has he may have them quickly fin- ished up if he will sort them out, place them in supers, put two or three at a time on these selected colonies and feed good honey, all the bees will take. It is so satisfactory to me. that I don't care if I have ever so many unfinished sections. I know that by feeding I can change the unsala- ble product into fancy honey, for un- der these artificial conditions I find the bees finish the sections perfectly, sealing every cell. Such combs as are only partially drawn out, or such as contain little honey I do not return to the bees at all. but allow the bees to clean them out. But all combs well drawn out and largely filled with honey, though there may not be a cell sealed, such are well suited for the purpose. When assembling the unfinished sections I always place them in the super iu such a way as to have the best filled sections next to the outside, the lightest in the mid- dle. If one face of a section is all completed, I put this face next to the outside, and w^ien assembling the un- finished combs in my wide frames I go so far as to have the best sealed edges of the sections next to the ends of the frames as will appear in the illustration. Open air feeding is of course out of question. We have to feed inside of the hive ordinarily. The Miller feeder is well adapted to feed on top of the hive and is thus used almost al- ways. I have used it in a hive body back of the hive as well as in front of the hive and with satisfactory re- sult. The plan enabled me to get at the supers easily and use the escape to free the finished supers from bees. When using the Miller feeder in this fashion a bridged passage from the hive containing the bees to the hive body containing the feede
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