FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 201 



LATE HOXEY. 



As I said, I am not sure that it is ever wise, except 

 in the Hastings apiary, to allow supers to stay on after 

 the white-clover harvest is over. True, a considerable 

 amount of honey may be got in sections from the late 

 flow, but it is not all of it of the best, and if it were stored 

 in brood-combs and saved as extra combs to be crowded 

 into the brood-chamber the next year before the begin- 

 ning of the harvest, there might be nearly or quite as 

 many more sections of white-clover honey stored, to off- 

 set what was lost in sections in the fall. 



GETTING BEES OUT OF SECTIONS. 



For the purpose of getting bees out of sections I 

 have tried pretty thoroughly the Porter escape and other 

 escapes which work on the principle of allowing the bees 

 to go down out of the supers without the chance of 

 returning, but they do not work fast enough to suit 

 me. When I go to an out-apiary. I always want to bring 

 home with me all the honey taken off that day. Even 

 at home I want it taken in the same day it 

 is taken off. I may want to go elsewhere the next morn- 

 ing, and I don't want to be hindered from an early start 

 by having to get it in before starting. Besides, I am 

 just a little afraid that if I should make a practice of 

 leaving honey out over escapes till the next day, some 

 one none too scrupulous might learn the trick and by a 

 night visit save me the trouble of taking off some of the 

 honey. So whatever honey is taken off any day is got 

 into the house before we get to bed that night ; for some- 

 times it happens that when we have a big day's work at 

 an out-apiary we do not get home till 8 o'clock or later. 



SMOKING BEES DOWN. 



WTien a super is to be taken off, smoke is blown 

 down into it until a sufficient number of bees have gone 

 down out of it. What that sufficient number is depends 



