ta, 
416 A Modern Bee-Farm 
populous, stocks are in the pink of condition for work of 
this kind. But the apiarist must be lively and get the 
supers changed as rapidly as the work of a progressive 
stock will permit. A day lost in this direction may mean 
a complete super of comb honey missed later on. 
Some American Friends 30 Years Behind. 
Apart from the general practice of saving over unfinished 
section combs left from a previous harvest, as bait combs 
for the following season, the Author’s early experiments 
and definite recommendations given in his pamphlet of 
1886, marked the frst ‘systematic process of providing 
drawn combs for ad{' sections prior to the current season’s 
operations. 
Our American friends during the Autumn of 1913, again 
started a discussion upon this question; and although my 
earlier and later works explaining the system—including 
the latest plan of securing drawn combs prior to each~ 
season, without any fitting or cutting out—have been freely 
circulated in that country, several writers are still considering 
my earlier plans of cutting out the combs and fitting them 
into sections, as first published in the 1886 pamphlet. 
Nevertheless there are many who have already adopted 
the later plans I have offered of working the new combs 
right in the sections without any after cutting and fixing, 
and the results have shown upwards of 50 per cent. 
additional yields in consequence. 
The Ideal (Manufactured) Drawn Comb 
was produced by the A. I. Root Co. some twelve years 
since, being a comb of very delicate construction more than 
half the completed thickness of section combs. This, 
however, was too costly and difficult to make, and would 
not bear transit in bulk, hence the best way of purchasing 
