A YEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT-APIARY 



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ten-frame Langstroth hive contains. The sections in one of these supers 

 contain only full sheets of foundation, this foundation being of the extra 

 thin kind for sections, as manufactured by The A. I. Root Co., while the 

 other super has 12 of the 44, full or nearly so of comb, left over from 

 1904, as "unfinished" sections, they having been put in the super when 

 it was prepared for the season of 1905, with the 32 other sections (filled 

 with extra thin foundation) as "baits." 



The baits are very valuable with this plan, as these bait-combs give 

 a chance for the bees to be storing the honey at once, or immediately 

 after its removal from the combs below, to give the queen room for her 

 eggs — this being done while other bees are drawing out the foundation 

 in other sections, so that work along all lines progresses as one great 

 whole, without any interruption. 



This super with baits is put on first, top of this prepared hive, and 

 the other with sections of foundation on top of this. This second 

 or upper super is put on to give plenty of room for any over- 



flow of bees or honey which may come before our next visit, so 

 that the bees may not at any time feel crowded for room. I have some- 

 times put the super containing the baits at the top, but the bees do not 

 so readily get to them there, and hence slower work all around on the 

 start, which is against the greatest success. An immediate start in the 

 sections is a great advantage at this stage of proceedings. 



Some seem to think that the bees carry very little it any honey from 

 the brood-nest up into the sections, and for this reason feed the bees. 



