The Honey Bee 1417 



At the commeaicemcnt of the honej flow, place supers on all 

 colonies that are in a suitable condition and continue with the 

 others as fast as they come into condition. If the colonies are 

 populous, with honey flow, and weather conditions right, place 

 an empty super under the first when the bees commence sealing 

 in the same. Follow this plan up as long as advisable, but do not 

 carry it too far, so as to have a lot of unfinished sections at the 

 close of the season. 



The last supers given toward the close of the flow, or when the 

 bees are working moderately, should be placed above those nearly 

 filled, and dropped to the hive when the latter are removed. 



Remove the surplus as soon as the combs are sealed, to preserve 

 the whiteness of the cappings. 



Store the surplus in a dry and warm building until ready for 

 market. Clean the sections of all propolis, grade it nicely and 

 pack it in clean crates. 



THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY 



When the colonies become populous and the honey flow is near, 

 and before preparation has been made for swarming, supers con- 

 taining empty comb or foundation should be placed on them with 

 a queen excluder intervening. "When these supers are two-thirds 

 filled, another may be added — and so on to the end of the flow. 

 This will tend to discourage swarming and the honey will be well 

 ripened by remaining on the hive. Where the crop is secured 

 from different sources and is of varying colors or grades which 

 it is not desirable to mix, the supers should be removed and 

 honey extracted and then replaced for the next flow. This is 

 especially applicable to buckwheat growing regions. 



Extracted honey may be and is frequently produced with but 

 one super to each colony ; however, it is then sometimes necessary 

 in a flush yield to remove the honey before fully ripe, and ripen 

 artificially in tanks or other receptacles, which is not always 

 satisfactory. Besides, the extracting must be done more fre- 

 quently and the colonies are much more apt to become over- 

 crowded without close attention. 



