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swarm if such space and incomplete dvo00d combs happen to 
be situated at the back, or the point furthest from the 
entrance, the author sists that the open space and unfinished 
combs shall always be at the front, or adjoining the entrance.” 
That is; at the front where long hives are used ; or between 
(and under) the brood nest and entrance where hives are 
tiered up one above the other ; the latter plan always being 
the more satisfactory for general working; and as now 
perfected in the Conqueror hive. 
With this hive the supers are started under the stock, and 
then moved—above—with the clustering bees, just as soon 
as work is proceeding therein.* 
The idea has long been fixed 
in the minds of bee-keepers that unless the bees were 
crowded into the supers, and overcrowded in the stock 
chamber, nothing would induce them to work in these 
supers or surplus receptacles. The same idea remains 
to-day, fixed as ever in the non-progressive minds of the 
majority of teachers, and of a vast multitude of others who 
will probably wait, to make room for more enlightened 
successors before the grand idea of surplus unoccupied 
space, in addition to surplus comb-building capacity 
becomes generally acknowledged as one of the first 
principles in the. production of a large surplus of honey. 
An important item 
in the new management consists in supplying every section 
with worked-out combs, and these prepared just prior to the 
current honey season, so that the bees are induced to store 
above rather than build to any extent either in front or 
below according to the style of the hive in use. 
* Comb-honey should never be completed under the stock, and 
the Author has on no occasion advised such a course. 
