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that most of the beos will fall out. 

 Till' supers cau then be stacked up, 

 and a hole left at the top, when in 

 two or three hours time the last bee 

 will have left them. Then, again, the 

 supers and frames are nice for ex- 

 tracted honey, should the bee-keeper 

 in any event desire to so use them; in 

 fad, in putting up bulk comb it re- 

 tiuires about one third extracted hon- 

 (>y with which to put up the comb. 



In packing bulb comb we cut out 

 llic (-(inil) nicely and phice it in the 

 lans, and afterward pour iu extract- 

 ed honey to cover the comb and to fill 

 up the crevices, and in this way about 

 one-third extracted honey goes in; 

 and it must be remembered that this 

 e.vtracted honey goes in at the comb 

 honey price. 



It has been found both practicable 

 and profitable to produce both comb 

 j'lid extracted honey in the same 

 ;'l)iary; in fact, on the same hives at 

 the same time; for many have found 

 that it pays them to have one super 

 of c(unl)s on top of the regular brood 

 nest so that the queen may fill it with 

 lirood before the honey flow, if she 

 likes, and when the flow comes, these 

 supers catch the first nectar; and as 

 soon as the flow is on, and the bees 

 have commenced to secrete wax, this 

 super of comb is lifted, and the eiup- 

 ty frames of foundation placed be- 

 tween them and the brood. This is 

 the most effectual way of baiting bees 

 into the supers; and it will be found 

 tliat where colonies are so worked, 

 swariuing is kept in check if not en- 

 tirely prevented. The queen is left in 

 entire possession of the regular brood- 

 iest, and, by the time the flow is over, 

 the brood will have hatched from 

 th(> shallow super of combs, and the 

 bees will have filed them with ex- 

 tracted honey which is just what we 

 will want in putting up our comb hon- 

 ey, as we have already shown that 



at least one-third of the honey must 

 be extracted with which to pack the 

 coml). 



BEES WILL STORE NEARLY TWICE AS 

 MUCH BULK COMB HONEY. 



It has been demonstrated time and 

 again tliat bees will store all the way 

 from 50 per cent to 100 per cent more 

 honey when worked for bulk comb 

 than they will Avhen worked for sec- 

 tion honey, and many believe (the 

 writer included) that where the bees 

 are worked as outlined above, nearly 

 if not quite as much bulk comb honey 

 can be produced as could be produced 

 of extracted honey alone; and espec- 

 ially does this hold good where the 

 localities have fast flows of honej% in 

 which a great amount of wax is al- 

 ways secreted whether there are any 

 combs to build or not. 



RELATIVE COST OF BULK AND SECTION 

 HONEY. 



We will now show the relative 

 cost of bulk comb to section honey. 

 When we buy bulk comb supers and 

 flames we have bought them to use 

 for years, when we buy sections they 

 are for one season's use whether they 

 be filled with honey or not. Then we 

 have to get costly separators, fol- 

 lowers, etc., that soon give out to be 

 replaced. When we go to ship we 

 have to have costly, glass-front ship- 

 ping cases, and these cases, in turn, 

 packed in crates for shipment. When 

 we pack section honey we have to 

 take lots of time and patience to 

 scrape the sections; when we pack 

 bulk comb honey we buy cases of 

 cans and cut the honey out into them. 

 ^Mion we get ready to ship we have 

 to pay a high rate of freight on sec- 

 tion honey, and, more, run the risk 

 of having a good part of it badly dam- 

 aged or destroyed altogether. When 

 we ship bulk comb we get a low, ex- 

 tracted-honey-rate, and have the as- 



