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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



What to Do with Partly-Filled 

 and Uncapped Sections. 



Query 888.— All things considered, what 

 is the very best disposition to make of partly- 

 capped and uncapped sections of honey after 

 the season is ended ?— N. C. 



Sell or use immediately. — Mrs. L. 

 Harrison. 



Feed them back to weak colonies. — 

 Will M. Barnum. 



Extract the honey, and use the sec- 

 tions for "bait " next season. — Eugene 

 Secor. 



Extract the honey from them, and put 

 them on another season to be filled. — P. 

 H. Elwood. 



One good way is to pile them on some 

 colony short of stores, and let it clean 

 them out. — H. D. Cutting. 



The best save after extracting the 

 honey, and the rest burn after cutting 

 out the comb. — J. H. Labrabee. 



Extract the honey, let the bees clean 

 them up, and store for use or "bait" 

 sections the next year. — G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



If you can do it successfully, feed and 

 have them filled ; or else extract and 

 keep the combs until next season. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



To extract the honey, return the sec- 

 tion to the bees to have them dried up, 

 and preserve them for next summer. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



My own idea is to let the bees clean 

 them out, and then keep them over for 

 another season. But why have many 

 such sections ? — J. E. Pond. 



I don't know. If you manage to the 

 very best advantage, you will have very 

 few or no such sections on hand at the 

 close of the honey season. — C. H. Dib- 



BERN. 



If you have a market for them, sell 

 the best for something less than full 

 price. It may pay to extract some. As 

 for the rest, put them in piles in supers, 



protected from the weather, and let the 

 bees rob them out, allowing entrances 

 for only two or three bees at a time, so 

 they will not tear the combs. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



Cut out all the honey that is capped, 

 and sell it for chunk honey. Let the 

 bees clean out what remains. Consign 

 the combs to the wax-extractor. The 

 sections will make kindling-wood. — Em- 

 erson T. Abbott. 



1. Sell the best, if the market will ad- 

 rait of it. 2. Feed back to colonies not 

 fully provided with stores. 3. Extract 

 the honey, and allow the bees to clean 

 them up, then store away in close room 

 for future use. — J. P. H. Brown. 



Sell all you can at the best price ob- 

 tainable above the price of extracted 

 honey, then extract the rest. Let the 

 bees clean up the sections, and then 

 store them in a dry place, safe from 

 mice, for next season's use. — S, I. Free- 

 born. 



Throw the honey out with the extrac- 

 tor ; put the sections back in the hive, 

 and when the bees have removed all the 

 adhering honey, put them away where 

 they will be kept clean and free from 

 worms, and use them next year. — M. 

 Mahin. 



My plan has always been to extract 

 them. Place them on top of hives to be 

 cleaned up, then stored away in a nice, 

 dry place for next year's use. There 

 viay be a profitable way to feed and get 

 them filled, but I have not yet found it. 

 — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



That depends upon how much honey 

 they contain. I think it most profitable 

 for me to collect those nearly full, put 

 them back and secure their completion 

 by feeding extracted honey ; to extract 

 from the medium ones and to allow the 

 bees to carry the honey out of the light- 

 est ones. — R. L. Taylor. 



There are two methods of manage- 

 ment — and only two — by which the un- 

 finished sections can be handled without 

 loss. The more profitable of the two 

 plans is to have them completed by feed- 

 ing back pure honey, having the work 

 done by properly prepared colonies. If 

 you do not have the skill to conduct this 

 work, the next best way is to extract 

 the honey from the section combs, let 

 the bees clean them, and then preserve 

 them for the next season. Their after 

 management is another matter to con- 

 sider. — G. W. Demaree. 



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