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THE PRACTICAL BEE GUIDE, 



continued wliile the honey flow lasts, the empty crate being 

 placed underneath. The upper crates may be removed when 

 finished, and before the faces of the combs become soiled by 

 the constant coming and going of the bees : but, if the crates 



be tiered up until the close 

 of the honey flow, the honey 

 will keep its flavour best on 

 the hive ; and the bees, 

 having- so much room, will 

 be less inclined to swarm, 

 and, not being deprived of 

 their stores, will be less in- 

 clined to give trouble. In a 

 good season, as many as five 

 crates may be required for 

 a strong stock ; in which 

 case, if tiering be practised, 

 an extra make-shift riser will 

 be required, and assistance 

 in lifting the crates together 

 will be necessary. It is a 

 good plan to use a Divisional 

 Crate (104) for the last addi- 

 tion to the tier, and at the 

 close of the season where 

 tiering is not practised ; be- 

 cause, seven or fourteen 

 sections may be given, when the season has advanced too far 

 to admit of twenty-one sections being added with any prospect 

 of their being filled and sealed ; and, because the parts may 

 be removed as the sections in each are completed, the last, 

 unfinished sections being placed over the centre of the cluster. 

 The Hanging Crate (107) may be used to get sections completed 

 in the brood chamber. 



270. Doubling and Storifying. — When extracted honey is 

 being worked for, " Doubling " may be practised with excellent 

 results, both as regards the harvest that may be obtained from 

 it, and the restraint it exercises upon the swarming impulse. 

 About three weeks before the opening- of the honey flow (265), 

 take, from a strong stock, all the frames containing brood, 

 except one, on which the queen must be left : return the adher- 

 ing bees to their hive ; and fill the vacancies with frames of 

 comb or of foundation. Place the frames of brood in another 

 body box, or in a super box, and set them on top of a second 

 strong stock, with an excluder (109) underneath, thus doubling 

 the hive (Fig. 89). The stock, increasing daily by the emerg- 

 ing brood in both storeys, will become very strong, and will be 

 capable of storing honey very rapidly in the upper frames as 



Fig. 88. 



chatbs tiered 



