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if some sections with drawn out comb, or with comb containing 

 a littlfi honey be given them. For this purpose it is useful to 

 keep over, in a warm, clean place, some unfinished sections 

 from the previous year (278). The Hanging Crate (107) may be 

 used to get sections started in the brood chamber, and these, 

 with the adhering bees, may be inserted in the first crates ; 

 when, if the latter be kept warm, work will be commenced 

 there. 



267. Putting on Super Boxes — ^Super boxes (108), with 

 frames for extracting, are vaselined, and put on in the same 

 way as are crates, with these variations: — (i), excluder zinc is 

 generally used (109), and (2), as super boxes with frames are 

 ^ heavier than crates of sec- 



tions, the manner of re- 

 moving the carbolic cloth 

 and putting on the super 

 box, so as not to allow bees 

 to fly up during the opera- 

 tion, must be modified. If 

 you have an assistant, get 

 him to pull off the carbolic 

 cloth while you hold the 

 super box in position just 

 above the cloth, ready to 

 set it on the frames. If 

 you are alone, stand behind 

 the hive : hold the super 

 box down to the cloth, 

 which you will catch by the 

 edge with your right hand, 

 as illustrated : give your 

 hands, a quick jerk to the 

 right, pulling off the cloth ; and at once set on the super box. 

 With a little practice, this can be done so rapidly that, the bees 

 having been driven down by the carbolic, not one will have 

 time to escape before you have the super box on, and covered. 

 Another simple method is to stand at the side, and slide the 

 super box along the frames, pushing the carbolic cloth before 

 it. The objections to this method are, that a little propolis 

 or wax on the frame tops may cause a difficulty in sliding on 

 the super box; and, that unless your hive is so constructed 

 that the ends of the top bars are held by the outer hive walls, 

 as they should be (86), the sliding on of the super box may 

 press the frame ends against the inner walls of the hive and 

 may crush many bees, perhaps even killing the queen. 



288. Use of Excluders. — Frames in the brood chamber should 

 hang one and a half inches from centre to centre. But in the 



PUTTING ON A SUPER BOX. 



