DETAILS CONCERNING HONEY 111 



to be avoided in tiering up is a surplus of partly 

 filled sections, and the way we avoid this is not to 

 interpolate a super until the one on the hive is at 

 least three-fourths filled. 



STAINED SECTIONS 



A regular part of bee exercise consists of prom- 

 enading up and down and across the sealed honey; 

 the bee has not as yet, unfortunately, attained the 

 fastidiousness which leads her to wipe any of her 

 six feet carefully before entering her domicile, con- 

 sequently the sections of honey thus walked over 

 may be stained and unmarketable. There is no 

 remedy for this except to look after the supers care- 

 fully, and take out the sections before they are 

 soiled. 



Some sections may look dirty because old wax is 

 used in making the caps. If such is the case, and 

 it is simply yellow, the wax may be bleached by 

 standing it in the sun or by subjecting it to sulphur 

 fumes. Some apiarists have special rooms and 

 others tight boxes for the sulphur bleaching. Only 

 two things are necessary to accomplish this success- 

 fully; first, that the room or box be tight; second, 

 that the sulphur placed in an iron dish be heated 

 so that the fumes are strong and all-pervading. Some 

 say that the sulphur should be heated so that if a 

 match be touched to it it will flame. The combs 

 need not be subjected to such fumes more than 

 a half-hour to become as white as they can 

 be bleached. 



