. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 534 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 26, on top of the sections was only a nuisance to hira : then in went another deluge of smoke, among ihe white capping of the section honey. Next, off came the super of honey. Just boiling full of bees. He then tried the " shake-out " process, f?enerally accompanied with a sort of war-dance, with excla- mations that sounded like " bad lujin '' talk. The super would then be set up edgewise on the ground, while the nozzle of the smoker was applied to the openings on one side, while the bee- brush got in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 534 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 26, on top of the sections was only a nuisance to hira : then in went another deluge of smoke, among ihe white capping of the section honey. Next, off came the super of honey. Just boiling full of bees. He then tried the " shake-out " process, f?enerally accompanied with a sort of war-dance, with excla- mations that sounded like " bad lujin '' talk. The super would then be set up edgewise on the ground, while the nozzle of the smoker was applied to the openings on one side, while the bee- brush got in its work on the other side, and the apiarist (?) pumpt smoke through the nice, white honey, until it lookt, tasted and smelt as if it had been the very last thing rescued from a burning barn. Late in the season the bees are loth to leave the sections, even after they have been piled up in the bee-yard for several hours; but if the supers can be left out over night the bees will either get out early in the morning or cluster in a few sections, when they can be lifted out and shaken on the ground, after which they will soon find their way home. All leaking or uncapt sections can be returned to the hive for the bees to finish during the working season, or packt as sec- ond class. If not filled well enough to sell they can be ex- tracted, and used for "baits" next season. In fact, I try to have the bees draw foundation as late in the season as possi- ble, in order to have a lot of drawn combs to start the next season with. PACKING AND MARKETING HONEY. While on this subject, under the good of the order, I might be permitted to say a few words about packing and marketing the honey. Since the advent of the deep-cell foun- dation, the cheerful idiot is again cavorting on his hobby of bogus comb honey, filled with glucose, sugar, syrup, etc., (id nauscum. Life is too short to make a personal matter of it with those chattering Jack-er-daws, and some of the honey is packt in suc
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