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The sections in the centre are the first to be filled. It does no harm to remove 

 them as soon as they are finished, filling up with empty ones. If you leave them alone 

 until all are done, watch their progress just the same, and as soon as you see that the 

 super is more than half-full, put a second on top of the first. Further actions will 

 depend on conditions. Should the first super be completed before the end of the flow 

 is in sight, then empty it, fill in new sections, and set above the second. If the end is 

 near, go slow, for you want finished sections, not a lot in various stages of development. 



The removal of a super full of sections in the midst of the honey-flow is a simple 

 afiair ; just take it off the hive and set it on end on top of the cover. In an hour or 

 two the bees will have vacated it, returning to the hive, nor will other bees bother, as 

 they are too busy carrying in nectar. But when the honey -flow is over it is a very 

 different afiair, for then the worker-bees are looking for a chance to rob each other's 



Fig. 20. 



Queen JOxcluder, or Honey Board. 



hives. The super must be at once cleared of bees by jarring it, also by the use of 

 smoke, but the less of this the better, so as to avoid tainting the honey. 



Section honey should be sold as speedily as possible, before it has time to granulate. 

 When stored in a hot, dry place it will probably remain liquid until Christmas, some- 

 times much longer, but, all in all, the early market is the safest. 



Sections intended for sale should be scraped clean of all propolis and wax. A 

 jack-knife with a straight blade is a good tool for the purpose. The agricultural world 

 cannot learn too soon what is well known in the industrial sphere, that more money is 

 spent to gratify the eye than on all other sense organs combined ; therefore, it pays to 

 have clean and neat every article that is to be placed on the market. 



Extracted Honey. 

 When the queen has the run of a couple of hive-bodies there is nothing to be done 

 at the commencement of the honej^-flow, unless the bee-keeper wants to confine her to 

 the lower chamber. In this case he gets her below, then places a queen-excluder 

 between the two parts of the hive. The bee-keeping world is very much divided on 

 this question ; some men use the excluder, just as many do not. It is the nature of 

 the bee to store the honey above the brood ; therefore, when they have been occupying 



