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upon it, but go for the possibility and give the extra super. 

 But I put it on top of the others, so that the bees will not 

 commence work in it unless actually crowded into it. 



During the early part of the harvest, so long as there 

 is a reasonable expectation that each additional super will 

 be needed, the empty super is put under the others, next 

 to the brood-chamber. Work will commence in it more 

 promptly than when an empty super is placed on top, and 



Fig. 30 — Rozif of Lindens in Bloom. 



that greater promptness in occupying the new super may 

 be the straw to turn the scale on the side of keeping down 

 the desire for swarming. But when a super is put on 

 toward the close of the season, not because it seems really 

 needed, but as a sort of safety-valve in case it might be 

 needed, I do not wish to do anything to coax the bees 

 into it, so it is put on top, and the bees can do as they 

 please about entering it. It is true that if an empty 

 super is put under the others at a time when the harvest 

 is nearing its close, the bees may not do a thing in it, but 

 merely go up and down through it and keep to work in 



