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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



COMB AND EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Producing Both in the Same Super. 



BY G. C. GREINER. 



The principle of producing comb and ex- 

 tracted honey in the same super at the same 

 time has been in my mind for several years; 

 and when Mr. Townsend's article on this 

 subject appeared in Gleanings, page 594, I 

 had all preparations made to test the mat- 

 ter this past season. The photographs were 

 taken at about the same time, either just 

 before or soon after said article appeared. 

 It was just before the white-clover season 

 opened, which can be seen by the fact that 

 only a few supers had been placed on the 



brood-chamber fashion— one section-holder 

 on each side, and five extracting-combs to 

 fill out the space between. This, of course, 

 is not the proper way if we expect to har- 

 vest any comb honey; but for experiment's 

 sake I ran a couple of hives in this way, and 

 was not disappointed when I found at the 

 close of the honey season, although honey 

 had been stored quite lively in the combs, 

 that not a sign of any work had been done 

 in the sections. The starters had not even 

 been touched. 



With the other arrangement, shown on 

 the hive at the right, I was more success- 

 ful, but not to the extent a person would 

 expect after reading Mr. T. 's article. It is 

 my impression that the glowing terms with 

 which he portrays his achievements are not 



FIG. 1.— COMB AND EXTRACTED HONEY IN THE SAME SUPER. 



hives, and these few were for observation. 

 I conceived the idea independently of aty 

 thing I ever read or heard of on the sub- 

 ject, so that I may justly claim to be, if not 

 the originator, at least one of the originators 

 of that plan. 



The section-holders, of which a number 

 are shown in Fig. 2, are about the same as 

 those we used years ago for side-storing in 

 the brood-chamber. They are the usual 

 wide frames the same size as the brood- 

 frarnes, holding two tiers of four 4>^X5 

 sections each, with two corresponding sepa- 

 rators nailed permanently to one side. The 

 hive on the left, Fig. 1, is arranged in this, 



all the representations of actual experience, 

 but a well-seasoned mixture of facts and 

 theory, unless his bees in Michigan act very 

 differently from ours here in Western New 

 York. 



Instead of sections being placed at the 

 sides, a double tier of broad frames, con- 

 taining 16 sections in all, takes the center, 

 and two extracting-combs on each side fill 

 out the super. The illustration gives it in 

 this way; but, in reality, when placed on 

 the colony the width of the super is reduced 

 by a f-inch division-board, otherwise the 

 combination would give the combs too much 

 space from center to center, and an addi- 



