HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



Now that you have your super in position^ 

 place on it its covering board, replacing the 

 lid, and treat in like manner all colonies that 

 are ready for supers. 



If the flow is good, an examination of the 

 super body will tell how rapidly the bees are 

 filling it, and if you find that about two- 

 thirds of each comb is filled and capped over, 

 the frames are ready for extracting. 



Some beekeepers never use more than one ex- 

 tracting super for each colony, and by frequent 

 extracting, keep the colony from being crowded 

 for room, but there is another class who pre- 

 fer to tier up, and in some cases as many as 

 three or four supers are used. 



Where tiering up is to be resorted to, it 

 requires that the beekeeper, as soon as he finds 

 that the first super is nearly filled, shall gently 

 lift it and place between it and the hive brood 

 body another super with eight frames of combs 

 or frames of wired foundation sheets, leaving 

 the excluder still over the brood body. When 

 the second body is nearly filled, and the indi- 



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