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may store some surplus of extracted honey when they would not 

 store in sections, it is only the strong colonies that pile up the 

 profitable crops. Xo matter in what form one expects to market 

 his crop, he must bend every energy to bring his colonies to the 

 beginning of the honey flow in prime condition. 



Putting on Supers. — As soon as colonies are crowding the 

 brood chamber, it is time to give more room (Figs. 96 and 97). 

 As the frames are the same as those occupied for the brood nest, 



Fig. 96. — Strong colony for extracted honey production. 

 Fio. 97. — Colony that produced forty dollars worth of extracted honey in one season. 



no difficulty will be found in getting the bees to occupy them, as 

 encountered by the comb honey specialist. It is well to lift the 

 hive up and place the extracting super underneath. By this 

 means the bees will not be required to warm unoccupied space 

 above the brood nest, and as fast as the honey comes in it will 

 crowd the queen down, so that soon the upper hive will be full of 

 honey and the queen and brood will be below. The objection to 

 this plan is the accumulation of surplus pollen in extracting 

 combs. If the empty super is placed on top without an excluder 

 beneath there is a tendency for the queen to occupy the empty 

 combs for egg laying, with the result that she will keep on going 



