DETAILS CONCERNING HONEY 109 



In large apiaries the following plan is followed: 

 First, put on a super of shallow extracting frames 

 from which the honey has been removed; as these 

 cells are all ready, the bees are likely to go to work 

 in them at once; and after they are working well 

 raise the super, and put in one below it filled with 

 sections containing starters, and all will be well. 

 In dealing with this phase of bee-keeping it is well 

 to remember that full sheets of foundation in the 

 sections are more attractive to the bees than starters ; 

 and that sections containing comb already made are 

 still more pleasing, and if some of these made cells 

 contain honey, their attractiveness is doubled. One 

 condition should be observed in putting on a super 

 in the summer: it should be shaded in some way; 

 if it is in the direct rays of the sun, the heat is likely 

 to keep the bees out of it. However, later in the 

 season bees may be induced to work in the super 

 by placing over it a cushion so that it will be warm. 



TIERING UP 



If the honey is coming in at a good rate, and the 

 bees are working well, when the sections in the super 

 are something more than half full, lift it up and place 

 another containing sections with starters beneath 

 it. The reason for this is that the bees would not 

 naturally go into the empty super if it were placed 

 on top until the other was completely filled. But 

 with this plan they continue working in the super, 

 even though it be on top, and meanwhile find it 

 "handy" to fill the intervening sections. If the 



