HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



early bloom, and give the empty combs back 

 to the bees for the later flow. 



When your supers are ready to extract, it 

 becomes necessary to free the combs of the 

 bees, and, as it makes little difference if a few 

 combs should be uncapped by the bees when 

 we smoke them down, we need not use bee 

 escape boards as in the case of comb honey, 

 for in the matter of comb honey there would be 

 a noticeable loss in the appearance and sala- 

 bility of the combs if the bees should in their 

 fright at being smoked at the time of emptying 

 the supers, uncap many cells on what would 

 otherwise be perfect sections. 



To get rid of the bees on the extracting 

 frames, open the hive and smoke them until 

 they run down into the body below; what few 

 bees remain can be shaken from the frames 

 in front of their hives and the frames of honey 

 placed in an empty hive body on a wheel- 

 barrow handy for the purpose. 



To prevent robbing, cover the body on 

 the wheelbarrow with a large cloth thoroughly 



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