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weatluT. WluMi tho woather is too 

 cool, though, escape's cannot be used. 

 Sometimes a cool morning will permit 

 the removal of a great many supers 

 without any bees in them. At other 

 times, by selecting the Avarmest time 

 of the (lay, the bees may be shaken 

 out very successfully. For this pur- 

 ltos(> Rambler's "jouncer" is very valu- 

 able, but must be carefully used or 

 it will break out the combs. Some- 

 times nothing can bo done except to 

 take the supers apart and brush the 

 bees otT. 



ADVANT.\GES OF PRODUCING BOTH COMB 



AND EXTRACTED HONEY IN THE 



SAME .\PIARY. 



All of the foregoing applies to apia- 

 ries that are run entirely for comb hon- 

 ey. In my own practice, I use meth^ 

 ods that much more largely reduce 

 the number of unfinished sections. I 

 always prefer to combine the produc- 

 tion of comb and extracted honey fn 

 the same apiary, which "Combination 

 Method" I have at various times in 

 p.-ist years xirged upon bee-keepers at 

 c-onventions and in the bee journals. 

 My extracting combs are in shallow 

 supi'rs. with fixed frames which are 

 never handled separately until they 

 they come to the extracting 

 room. Of the many advantages 

 of this system I will mention only 

 those that have a direct bearing on the 

 subject under discussion.. At the be- 

 ginning of the season, instead of 

 coaxing the bees into the supers by 

 bait sections, or waiting until they 

 are crowded into them, a super of ex- 

 tracting combs is given, to be replac- 

 ed liy sections as soon as the bees are 

 well started at work, or left to be 

 finished, as circumstances may dic- 

 tate. This obviates the necessity of 

 "bait sections," which I use to only 

 a limited extent, and so removes one 

 of the things that make many look 

 with more or less complacency on a 



number of unfinished sections iu the 

 fall. 



As the season draws to a close, iJi- 

 stead of giving sections that may 

 never be filled, I give a super of ex- 

 tracting cond)s, especially to the weak- 

 er colonies, and use every effort to 

 have the strong colonies finish up all 

 sections that have been started. As 

 these strong colonies finish up their 

 sections, instead of giving them 

 fresh ones, the sections are taken 

 from the weakest, or rather the poor- 

 est working colonies, and given to 

 those that are doing more rapid work 

 in the supers. T?y carefully working 

 this method I have succeeded in reduc- 

 ing the number of unfinished sections, 

 in an apiary run almost altogether for 

 comb honey, to an average of only 

 a little more than two per colony, and 

 every colony had at all times plenty 

 of storing room. An extracting super, 

 half full of honey, -is nearly as good, 

 except for the amount of honey, as 

 a full one, while a super full of half 

 filled sections is an expensive nui- 

 sance. Let it be remembered, too, that 

 a colony will do fairly good work stor- 

 ing honey in extracting combs at times 

 when it would do little or nothing at 

 working in sections. 



Grand .Junction, Colo., July 10, 1903. 



DUCATION AND CO-OPERA- 

 TION ARE THE NEEDS OF 

 CALIFORNIA BEE-K E E P- 

 ERS. BY J. M. HAMBAHGH. 



San Diego County, California can 

 boast of a greater variety of bee-keep- 

 ers, and has more modes and methods 

 than any other county in the United 

 States. There are those whose cen- 

 ter tables are adorned with the latest 

 bee periodicals and whose shelvr; cnn- 

 taiu up-to-dnte text books and bee lit- 

 erature; ;ind we li:!ve as !oo3C\ slip- 



