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of three British standard eleven-frame stock chambers prior 
to the main honey flow. Oh, yes! this will wear out any 
good queen in one season, but the cost of a queen is nothing 
as compared to a yield’ per stock 2” ome season, equal to that 
more frequently procured over a period of three years. 
“No queen can do that,” says the reader! But it has 
been done with a result up to nearly 360lbs. of extracted 
honey from a single colony. The methods of management, 
showing how to work double or treble stories of brood, with 
either one, two or more queens, are unfolded herein. 
Native Queens and Bees a Failure. 
In extra good seasons many owners working with native 
bees allow the smaller standard frames to become largely 
choked with pollen and some honey, using one stock 
chamber only ; hence the yield is very considerably smaller 
than it should be. 
The larger, deeper frame is not so quickly restricted in 
this way, even under inferior management, while the double 
chambers, when filled. with brood quite early, will result in 
heavy yields. 
When supering, one of the two stock chambers (or two if 
there are three) will be removed to one side, and, as 
repeatedly explained in this work, the removed portion may 
be used to swell the numbers of the actual working stock in 
due course; or at a later date may be supered separately if 
the division should have been made quite early. 
The non-swarming chamber may be either a comb-honey 
or an extracting super for the time being. 
What is meant by Honey Production ? 
Do you know what it means to become a producer of 
honey, a producer on a large scale, a king among honey- 
producers? You will certainly not then leave each indi- 
vidual colony to just do its best upon its own merits, its 
