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SUMMER. 
Where stocks cannot be got up to the desired strength 
for the opening of the Summer season, or when one wishes 
to take every possible advantage of the harvest, he will not 
hesitate to work on the 
Doubling System. 
At this moment honey may be coming in rapidly, with 
every appearance of fine weather to continue. The first 
is always the best chance, and it is a question whether the 
apiarist will simply allow the bees to waste their energies 
in excessive brood rearing, or at once modify their work 
in that direction, and direct far greater power towards the 
“piling up” of stores. What is done must now be done 
quickly, and though the usual plan has been to simply 
place the brood combs of one stock with, or upon its 
neighbor, and saving the queen with the swarm remaining 
on the old stand, the following definite methods of 
proceeding will give the highest profitable results. For 
producing 
Comb Honey, 
select any two desirable stocks standing near to each other. 
Unite the entire force of workers on to eleven frames of 
the most completely packed combs of brood ; allow the 
non-swarming: chamber under, and put on supers already 
filled with prepared comb to the capacity of some 40 lbs., 
or even more. If the other queen is old, destroy her, 
otherwise reserve her majesty in a nucleus. The surplus 
combs can be placed above any pair doubled for securing 
Extracted Honey. 
In this case, after removing one queen, place. one ,hive 
bodily upon the other, having first arranged the non- 
swarming chamber below all. Thus we have three 
