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them. If separators are used, as 

 would be likely in a comb-hone}' super, 

 IJ's or perhaps 2 inches from center to 

 center would be nearer rig'ht. Likely 

 the widtli of one's super would deter- 

 mine to quite an extent the spacin^'^ he 

 would have to adopt. Make them tit 

 your super. Isn't this a g-rand idea, 

 this using: an extracting-comb in the 

 outside of each super, making" this 

 part of the super that is usually 

 finished last thefirst that is commenced, 

 with this condition secured. Is there 

 any question in the mind of the ex- 

 perienced comb-honey producer that 

 the rest of the super containing- sec- 

 tions will be drawn out with astonish- 

 ing rapidity, thus securing that ideal 

 finish so much sought after, and here- 

 tofore secured in only a lavish honey- 

 flow ? I predict a great future for this 

 system. 



PRODUCING BOTH COMB AND EXTRACT- 

 KD HONEY IN THE SAME FULL- 

 DEPTH EXTRACTING UPPER 

 STORY. 



In producing extracted honej' we use 

 the ten-frame Langstroth hive, and use 

 eight combs in a ten-frame upper story 

 to extract from. Now, when starting a 

 new yard, usually by buying most of 

 the bees, our practice is, in furnishing 

 them with combs to be used in their 

 upper stories, to go to a 3'ard having- 

 their upper stories all full of drawn 

 combs, tmdtake half their combs tothe 

 new yard. This leaves four drawn 

 combs for each upper story at both 

 yards. Now we put in the place of the 

 combs removed four wired frames with 

 full sheets of foundation. Some of you 

 by this time are likely wondering 

 what this has to do WMth raising- comb 

 honey in an extracting upper story. 

 It is this. We find with the upper 

 stories arranged with half-foundation 

 and half-drawn combs we can prevent 

 swarming to nearly the same extent as 

 when full sets of combs are used. 

 Taking advantage of this fact the 

 next question arises. How many wide 

 frames of sections each can we substi- 

 tute for these four frames o.f founda- 

 tion, and still prevent swarming- ? If 

 we could sandwich in only three to 

 each upper story, that would be 24 

 sections to each upper story. 



Perhaps it would be well to close 

 the season with eifull set of combs, 

 placed on top the same as I told you 

 heretofore, with the single-depth super. 



The idea is, to get all our partly filled 

 supers exclusively' in the extracted 

 form. The object is this: Every wide 

 frame of sections we can get in this 

 way is worth in the market about twice 

 what it would be in the extracted form. 

 It is a quicker sale, and the tendency 

 of the tunes is that specialists, with 

 their increasing number of yards that 

 are at the present time starting up 

 over the country, will in the future pro- 

 duce such large quantities in the ex- 

 tracted form that there is a possibility 

 of a still wider margin in prices be- 

 tween the two articles unless some 

 such arrangement as I have outlined 

 above can be worked, so quite a per 

 cent, can be taken in the comb-honey 

 form, and still control swarming in 

 the outj'ards. 



In conclusion I want to add that I 

 am an enthusiast over this idea that 

 was brought forward at our conven- 

 tion at Grand Kapids last month, and 

 during the next few years I shall test 

 this system thoroughly in both my 

 comb and extracted honey supers, and 

 shall iidd all the wide frames of eight 

 sections each to my extracting upper 

 stories that I find I can, without caus- 

 ing swarming- at our out-j'ards where 

 no one is present to hive swarms that 

 would be quite sure to come if we used 

 too many sections in pkice of drawn 

 combs. 



THE HOFFMAN FRAME. 



Also a Plea for Simplicity in Hive- 

 Construction 



I know a great deal of late has been 

 written in regard to the Hoffman frame, 

 but, as long as it remains in use, I feel 

 that something, yes, much, ought to be 

 said. I have often thought if this style 

 of frame had been in general use, and 

 then some one had invented the free, 

 swinging, so-called, all-wood frame 

 given us by the genius of Langstroth, 

 what an iniprovemevt the latter would 

 have been considered ! In keeping 

 with this line of thought, the Rural 

 Bee-Keeper prints a most excellent 

 article by that eminently practical bee- 

 keeper, Mr. Stachelhausen. To the 

 man who is free to choose between the 



