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Beekeeping in the Clover Region. 23 
producing colony. Since if queencells are shaken the developing 
queens are often injured, the comb containing the finest of the 
queencells should be removed without shaking. If no permanent 
increase is desired, this new colony may be united with the pro- 
ducing colony or elsewhere at the close of the honey-flow. 
For other methods of swarm control the reader is referred to 
Farmers’ Bulletin 1198. 
REMOVAL OF THE HONEY CROP. 
The removal of either extracted honey or comb-honey is greatly 
facilitated by the use of bee-escapes, especially at the close of the 
season. If robbing is imminent, care should be taken to keep the 
honey well covered while it is being taken to the honey-house. 
When extracted honey is produced, it should be left on the hives 
until it is well ripened. The outfit needed for extracting and the 
methods used will depend on the size of the apiaries maintained. 
Since this phase of the beekeeper’s work has been so adequately dis- 
cussed in the current beekeeping literature, and since the needs of 
each beekeeper will be in some degree unlike those of others, it seems 
best in this bulletin to lay stress on those phases of the work which are 
more important, namely, the production of the crop. 
When comb-honey is produced, it must be removed as soon as it is 
finished, and this sometimes necessitates the removal of supers in 
which there are still unfinished sections. These are assembled in 
supers and returned to be finished. Previous to shipment to market, 
comb-honey should be kept in a dry place. Cleaning the sections, 
grading, and otherwise preparing the sections for market are phases 
of the work outside the bounds of this bulletin. 
PREPARATION FOR LATER HONEY CROP. 
When there is reason to expect a honey-flow following that from 
the clovers, with an interval of dearth between, care must be taken 
to leave the bees with an abundance of honey, so that brood-rearing 
may go on with as little interruption as possible. If the fall honey- 
flow is assured, as is rarely the case, the beekeeper might remove 
some of the fine-quality clover honey from the hive-body that is to 
serve as the upper story after the supers are removed. The usual 
mistake is to leave too little honey at the end of the clover honey-flow. 
If the later honey-flow is one which necessitates migratory bee- 
keeping, then the beekeeper is almost compelled to remove the honey 
so as to move only the bees and empty supers. This is safer because 
the wise beekeeper does not move his bees unless he is well assured 
of the value of the new honey-source. Migratory beekeeping is not 
extensively practiced in the clover region, although there is excellent 
