ST7EPLU8 HONBT. 



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'fitted on the outside (88). 

 Early in the day, hav- 

 ing lifted the crates or 

 super boxes, as directed 

 above, draw, or get an 

 assistant to draw, a 

 towel over the frames, 

 covering them com- 

 pletely. Set the supers 

 back upon the towel : 

 remove the sheet and 

 Fie, 91.-faJ CONE ESCAPE. Other coverings: and 



(t>) DANGER I QTJEEN ON THE CONE, put on the roof . It 

 there be no hole in the towel, the bees in the supers will be 

 unable to get down to the frames : they will come to the top 

 of the supers, and, seeing the light through the cones, 

 they will pass out that way, returning to the hive 

 through the usual entrance; and in the evening the 

 supers should be free from bees. If there be a ventilator 

 in any other part of the roof, it should be closed, so that the 



bees may see light 

 only through tha 

 cones. There are, 

 however, some ob- 

 jections to the 

 use of cone 

 escapes for this 

 purpose ; for, if 

 the day be cold or 

 wet, the bees will 

 not leave the hive 

 roof; and if there 

 should be, in the 

 crates, young bees 

 that have not yet 

 been on the wing, 

 they may be lost 

 on emerging from 

 the cones. 



274. The Super 



Clearer (Fig. qz) 



has simplified the 



once laborious and 



trying operation 



of removing surplus honey from bees. It is useful, also, when 



extracted combs require to be cleaned up by the bees before 



being stored away (278). It consists of a 2" x 2" frame of 



EBMOTING A FRAME SXIPEE. 



