6o SOUTHERN BEE CULTURE 



filled well with ligHt brood or thin surplus foundation, and attached well to 

 the top-bar with melted wax. Two or three of these shallow supers (accord- 

 ing to the surplus-honey flow in your location) should be thus prepared for 

 each colony, and one given the bees a few days in advance of the honey-flow 

 with a queen-excluding honey-board between it and the brood-nest, or the 

 queen might enter the supers and deposit eggs in some of the combs as they 

 are being built, and establish a portion of her brood-nest there, and thus spoil 

 the appearance of the comb. 



As soon as work is under full headway in the first super, give them 

 another super on top; then by the time the bees get to storing it in well, the 

 bottom super should be full and the honey capped over, which can then be 

 removed; and, if the flow justifies, give them another super and remove the 

 second super of honey. At the close of the flow leave the • remaining un- 

 finished honey on the hives until it is capped over well ; then remove all and 

 cut it out of the frames and put it up in glass jars or cans in as large pieces 

 as possible; then pour in enough strained or extracted honey to cover all the 

 comb, filling up the jars and cans. Pack the jars up well in straw, sawdust, 

 or shavings, and put it on the market. Chunk honey put up in jars and cans, 

 nicely labeled, makes an attractive package, and should bring a good pi ice 

 on any market. I have been able to sell more of this honey to the retail 

 trade than either comb or extracted honey. 



All frames should be cleaned up, and those from which honey had been 

 removed should be refilled with foundation and put back in supers in readiness 

 for the next flow ; then operate as for the previous flow. At the end of the 

 season take oflF all supers and remove the honey; then during the winter 

 get them in shape to give the bees next spring. 



This is an easy, simple, and cheap way to produce honey, and at the 

 same time it brings a good price ; and those intending to begin bee-keeping 

 should give it consideration. 



THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 



An apiary operated for extracted honey should be equipped with two full- 

 story hives, each story containing frames of the same dimensions so they 

 can be changed from one story to another, if necessary; and both sets of 

 frames should be well wired, and a full sheet of foundation in each frame. 

 If the apiary was previously operated for chunk or comb section honey, and 

 the frames unwired, put the extracting top story on top of it; and if it be 

 necessary ever to have to use the unwired frames in the bottom story, the 

 comb, being old and tough, will stand the strain of the extractor; but hive 

 all new swarms in one of the prepared stories ; and as soon as the bees have 

 nearly completed this set of combs, give them the other story. By not adding 

 this top story as soon as hived you have contracted space and thus helped 



