302 : A Modern Bee-Farm 
gatherers entering directly into the supers without passing 
through the brood nest. 
Increased Yields of Comb-Honey. 
When one has made up his mind to start with nothing | 
but drawn comb, he will find it can be done, and an 
immensely increased yield will be secured thereby. The 
difference between using foundation and drawn, or partly 
worked foundation, in sectional supers will often represent 
some 30 lbs. in favor of the latter, as the bees store all their 
surplus above from the first. 
In an apiary where other stocks were yielding 60 lbs. to 
80 lbs. each, one worked with drawn combs as above gave 
120 lbs. It will therefore be seen that Simmins’ Non- 
Swarming plan, really a carefully organized and definite 
system, was founded upon the fact that Drawn -Comds in 
sections, expressly prepared each season for that purpose, 
would ensure bees working therein, while all the time a 
large space existed below the stock hive. 
Bee-keepers generally have saved over unfinished combs 
in sections from year to year, and these were found to give 
a good start to the bees; but nothing was ever done to 
institute the systematic production of such new combs for 
all sections before being placed in position, until the 
Author’s system was published in 1886, as a result of 
several years’ previous development. 
No Waiting for Full Depth Cells. 
It is a mistake to suppose that the foundation will in the 
first instance be drawn out to fully extended cells. Nothing 
but disappointment and loss of time will result with such 
an object in view. A day or two only should be allowed 
before the partly worked comb is removed and _ further 
sheets supplied for the same purpose, 
The line of halved (2-in.) sections, or the line of narrow 
