FIFTY YEARS AMO^Xx THE BEES 



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set the first super on a fiat surface that admits no fight, 

 or right en the grass. 



KEEPING TALLY OF SECTIOXS, 



The number of the colony from which each super is 

 taken is marked in pencil on one of the middle sections, 

 perhaps when the super is first taken from the hive, cer- 

 tainly before it is taken from the hive entirely. A board 



Fig. 67. — Jumbo Hive (at right). 



or a slip of paper is kept where the supers are piled, and 

 as each super is taken to the pile the number of the hive 

 and the number of sections in the super is taken. Oc- 

 casionally the number of supers in the pile is counted, so 

 as to see whether it tallies with the number taken on the 

 memorandum, for without this there is danger that some 

 super might be forgotten, and the colony not have proper 

 credit. Wdien convenient, possibly while we sit resting 

 a little while after the supers are all piled, possibly not 

 till the next morning, the numbers on the memorandum 



