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and turning them on end. The work should be done quickly and the 
liquid not adhering to the inner surfaces poured out at once, in order to 
leave but a thin coating inside. 
The surplus combs are to be removed at the close of the season and 
hung an inch or so apart on racks placed in a dry, airy room, where no 
artificial heat is felt. Mice, if permitted to reach them, will do consid- 
erable damage by gnawing away the cells containing pollen or those in 
which bees have been bred, and which therefore contain larval and pupal 
skins. Moth larve are not likely to trouble them until the following 
spring, but upon the appearance of milder weather their ravages will 
begin, and if the combs can not be placed under the care of the bees at 
once they must be fumi- 
gated with burning sul- 
phur or with bisulphide 
of carbon. 
COMB HONEY. 
The main difference to 
be observed in preparing 
colonies for the produc- 
tion of comb honey, in- 









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Fic. 11.—Langstroth hive—super above holding 28 sections for the honey-flow begins and 
comb honey. 
; the supers are added, as 
to crowd many of the bees out and into the supers placed above. 
On each hive a super is placed (fig. 11) holding 24 to 48 sections, 
each section supplied with a strip or a full sheet of very thin founda- 
tion. It is best not to give too much space at once, as considerable 
warmth is necessary to enable the bees to draw out foundation or to 
build comb. A single set of sections is usually sufficient at a time. 
When the honey is designed for home use or for a local market, half- 
depth frames are sometimes used, the same as those often used above 
the brood nests when colonies are run for extracted honey, but for the 
general market pound sections (fig. 12) are better adapted. 
It is the practice of many to have nice white comb partially drawn 
out before the main honey flow begins, or even the season before, feed- 
