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vonnded ed^e Hlce tlic 

 natural side. 



The sectional 

 frames are used 

 crosswise of the su- 

 per with full sheets 

 of foundation, and 

 with the hive level 

 from front to rear; 

 a n d with fairly 

 strong colonies 

 sitraight combs will 

 be the result. If there 

 should be any partly 

 filled combs during a 

 poor season they can 

 be extracted the same 

 as shallow frames. 



I would advise two 

 sizes of boxes — 6% 

 X 5 X 11/2 for local 

 trade; a double box 

 fitting a ten-frame 

 super crosswise, or a 



5^2 X 4 X 1% for eight-frame supers which 

 can be used on a ten-frame hive if neces- 



The finished section. Note that the right-hand side 

 is the one that was cut. 



sary, provided queen-excluding zinc is used 

 with a wide frame margin at the sides to 

 make it wide enough. 

 Hamburg, N. Y. 



Double-length section-super adapted for eight-frame hives. 



[In our opinion the value of this plan 

 hinges upon one point — viz., whether the 

 bees work more readily in long shallow 

 frames fitted with foundation than they do 

 in small boxes like the regiilar-sized sec- 

 tions. A number of beekeepers producing 

 comb honey in shallow frames have report- 

 ed to us that it costs them practically as 

 much to produce the honey in the shallow 

 frames, pound for pound, as in the small 

 sections ; that the reason bees enter extract- 

 ing-suijers more quickly is because the 

 combs in the latter are already built. We 

 ourselves seriously question whether the 

 slight advantage gained by the larger frames 

 would make up for the greater amount of 

 labor required in putting together the six- 

 piece frames with the stays, cutting the 

 combs apart, fitting in the third sides, 

 draining, etc. We may be wrong — we have 

 been before — and if we are we shall be glad 

 to be corrected. — Ed.] 



EXTRACTING FROM THE BROOD-COMBS BEFORE THE HONEY-FLOW 

 TO GIVE THE QUEEN ROOM 



1!Y GKORGE M. HUNTINGTON 



In the production of comb honey, which 

 is the only honey produced in this vicinity, 

 alfalfa is the main source of nectar. I find 

 that, if colonies are brought through the 

 winter strong they will build up and gatlier 

 new honey for brood-rearing, and tliere will 

 be from one to two full frames of old honey 



remaining in the liive, according to the 

 strength of the colony. The strong ones 

 will have the most left, and will commence 

 to store in the brood-frames so that by the 

 time alfalfa is in bloom (or from the middle 

 of June to July 10, wliich is the time two- 

 thirds of the honey crop is gathered), the 



