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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



will at once commence work in the sections. 

 If the flowers are secreting nectar in 

 abundance it will be but a few days till 

 capping of the combs in the super com- 

 mences, which will indicate the time when 

 a second super should be placed above the 

 first. Capping" will now progress in the 

 first super. At the sime time, the honey- 

 laden bees returning from the fields, not all 

 being able to dispose of their burdens in 

 the first suoer, which is rapidly approach- 

 ing completion, will commence storing in 

 the second, and continue without interrup- 

 tion. The opportunities for work in the 

 first super are rapidly diminishing, and 

 day by day fewer bees can be employed 

 there, till finally the super is finished, and 

 its completion will have been accomplished 

 under the most favorable circumstances for 

 thorough and complete work. But there is 

 no enforced idleness, for the upper super 

 furnishes store room for all the nectar that 



c in not be stored in the first one. In due 

 time capping will commence in the upper or 

 second super, if the honey- flow continues, 

 which indicates the time when the capping 

 in the first is finished. The first super 

 may now be removed from the hive; and the 

 second one, which is now being capped, 

 substituted in its place, and a third super 

 placed above it. When capping has com- 

 menced in the third super, the second, or 

 one next to the brood-body, will be finish- 

 ed, and may be removed; the third, or one 

 over the second, substituted in place of the 

 latter, and a fourth placed above the third; 

 and so on to the end of the season. 



The natural instinct of the bee is to store 

 its food as near as possible to the brood. 

 The apiarist should heed the teaching of 

 nature, and keep food and brood in as com- 

 pact a space as possible, and not violate the 

 rule so unerringly pointed out by the Crea- 

 tor, by lifting the partly filled super and 



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THE PRODUCT OF ONE HIVE OF BLACK BKES AT THE PAN-AMEKICAN IN A DANZENBAKER 

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