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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



desired number of increase on their 

 stands, we give another section of brood 

 to each new colony. When taking this 

 second section of brood from the parent 

 colony, all of the bees can be brushed off, 

 as there will be young bees hatched 

 sufficiently to care for the brood in the 

 second section given to the colony on the 

 new stand. After each new colony has 

 two sections, place an excluding zinc on 

 and tier the brood above. As the brood 

 hatches from the upper sections, the 

 combs are filled with honey, which can 

 be extracted after the flow is over; then 

 these combs are given back to those 

 colonies that produce comb honey over a 

 single section that they may prepare the 

 brood nest for winter. 



THE SECRET OF SECURING WHITE CAPPINGS. 



After a colony gets well started in its 

 first super, give an additional one placed 

 next to the brood nest; and, if two supers 

 were given at the start, interchange 

 them, placing the top one at the bottom, 

 and in ten or twelve days later another 

 super may be given. If the flow is 

 normal they will take a super about 

 every seventh day, but when the fourth 

 super is given, the upper one is taken off 

 with its finished sections of honey and 

 taken to the store room. Herein lies the 

 secret of preserving that beautiful white 

 capping: Raising the supers about the 

 time the bees commence sealing the 

 honey and thus the last finishing touches 

 are given, away from the brood nest, 

 where there is less traveling done by the 

 bees, then taking it away from them as 

 soon as finished, using an escape board 

 to get bees out of the supers. 



SUPERS AND WIRE CLOTH SEPARATORS. 



A great deal depends upon our fixtures 

 in producing a fancy article, including 

 the neatness of sections. The super I 

 use was invented by the late N. N. 

 Betsinger of Marcellus, N. Y., with a 

 wire cloth separator and hanging broad 

 frame. This super is so constructed that 

 it gives the least possible bearings with 

 its broad frame, separator, and spacer. 



there is only the thickness of an edge of 

 tin that has a bearing. The separator is 

 so spaced that it gives a bee-way longi- 

 tudinally, past the sections. There is 

 also a bee-way at the ends of the brosd 

 frames and super; the wire cloth sep- 

 arator provides free communication be- 

 tween the sections, and a free distribution 

 of heat throughout the super. 1 have 

 separators that have been used many 

 years and are free from travel stain and 

 propolis. The super is covered with a 

 honey board; and let me say right here 

 that a soiled cloth cover should not be 

 used over a comb honey super, if one 

 expects to produce a fine article, as the 

 bees transmit the color and soil to the 

 comb. 



NO "bait combs" NOR OLD FOUNDATION 

 ARE USED. 



With the sectional hive we have no 

 necessity to use "bait combs;" in fact, we 

 cannot use them, for the bees would 

 deposit pollen therein if hived on founda- 

 tion. Furthermore, they never should be 

 used; the combs being exposed to the 

 air from the season before, harden and 

 become tough, and the consumer who 

 gets such honey is dissatisfied; and many 

 think they have some "manufactured" 

 article instead of honey. I have had it 

 "explained" to me many times at our 

 State Fair honey exhibit how they had 

 been "fooled" by grocerymen selling them 

 a manufactured comb honey, saying 

 "they knew" for they could tell the differ- 

 ence between the comb that the bees 

 made and that which we made. If we 

 are to maintain and increase the con- 

 sumption of comb honey we must be 

 very careful in what we do, as one dis- 

 satisfied customer may do us much 

 injury. We use full sheets of extra thin 

 foundation in supers and never use foun- 

 dation that has been carried over from 

 the season before; even though it is 

 packed in its shipping box it will harden 

 some, no matter how well protected from 

 the air, and the bees will not start to 

 work it as readily as the newly made. 

 We practice putting foundation into the 



