246 A Modern Bee-Farm 
above the stock chamber as early as the bees can possibly 
be induced, by warmth and careful feeding, to work out the 
foundation rapidly. Any kind of hot water vessel placed 
above, especially at night, where it can be regularly attended 
to, will induce rapid work, so that three or four days only 
‘need elapse before the foundation is sufficiently worked out 
for removal. 
The removed set may be placed above the quilt, and the 
section halves adjusted as soon as the bees go down, if not 
shaken off in the first instance. Another set may follow 
close on the brood nest, and when the season fairly opens 
these new combs will prove a remarkable stimulus, while 
the bees will then be strong enough to start other foundation 
in the lower chamber, used for the time being in place of, or 
next above, the swarm preventing chamber. 
When the section halves are placed upon either side of 
the newly built combs, simple pressure under a board will 
fix all securely. 
When combs are completed, remove the halved section 
holders and clear away all odd wax and propolis. Each set 
of three sections may be handled as one, or, if preferred, 
then divide with fine wire. 
The True Principle of Management 
consists in so manipulating the supers that none of the frames 
or sections arranged below the stock have finished combs all 
the season ; z.¢., they must be removed and used above as 
fast as the bees make a start thereunder. 
The space below or in front of the brood nest gives ample 
ventilation, keeping the hive cool; and the stock chamber 
being, as it were, duplicated, but never filled, the desire for 
swarming does not exist. 
As will be seen, the system is particularly applicable to 
the production of comb-honey, and without doubt is a 
