412 A Modern Bee-Farm 
The Great Secret of Comb-honey Production.—Where 
the bee-owner strives to set up his supers with “ Drawn 
Combs” (partly worked foundation of the current early 
season), his yields will be largely augmented. 
The supers will be quickly occupied, and com- 
pleted, while the stocks are more populous ; yet at the 
same time less inclined to swarm, as shown in the case 
of working for extracted honey with unlimited comb- 
space provided.— “‘ Simmins’ Non-Swarming System” 
and Comb-Honey Production, 1886. 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
DRAWN COMBS IN SECTIONS ; 
AND THEIR SYSTEMATIC PRODUCTION FOR 
THE CURRENT SEASON. 
N the early 80’s the Author experimented largely in 
t the preparation of drawn foundation, or partly worked 
combs in the forepart of successive seasons, in pre- 
paration for the current season’s comb-honey yield. 
In 1886 he published the results of his experiments, and 
endeavored to get. bee-keepers to realise that this process 
was the basis of larger comb-honey yields, while at the 
same time the supers were taken to more readily ; and in 
that more prepared comb space could be given at the 
start, he pointed out that swarming was largely checked. 
He also insisted that this plan was the basis of his Non- 
Swarming method as then published (1886) for working in 
connection with the production of comb-honey on a more 
extended scale. 
The Author also showed that without contraction or 
crowding of the brood-nest—indeed with unlimited room 
