HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



shallow and filled with little section boxes, 

 the bodies are full depth, and have in them the 

 same size of frames as the brood nest. 



When the colonies are strong and the tops 

 of the combs in the brood nest show the pres- 

 ence of newly gathered honey, we are ready 

 for the extracting bodies. When the honey 

 flow comes on with a rush, happy is the man 

 who is the possessor of a lot of surplus combs, 

 as this means the immediate storage of the 

 surplus, and does away with the attendant 

 waste and delay when frames with but full 

 sheets of foundation are at hand. This, how- 

 ever, is not a serious matter, and only prevails 

 for the first season, as at the end of the season 

 after the surplus is gathered, the fully drawn 

 combs are in hand for the next season's crop, 

 and for a number of seasons, for that matter, 

 as these combs are capable of being used for 

 a period of years. Many beekeepers make it 

 a point never to use in the extracting supers 

 combs that have ever been used in the brood 

 nest, as they claim that such combs invariably 



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