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more. This, of course, can not be done unless we use separa- 

 tors. Any delay will make it dark and hurt its sale. During 

 the harvest we should add other sections to take the place of 

 those removed. Towards the close of the harvest we should 

 not add other sections, for, by contracting' the space, the last 

 sections will be more surely filled and quickly capped. To 



Fig. 159. 



The lieeae Cones.— From A. I. Root Co. 



remove the bees from sing^le sections taken from frame or 

 case, we have only to brush them off. 



Few bee-keepers will stop to remove sing'le sections. In 

 fact, the tiering-up process is, in my opinion, the key to the 

 successful production of comb honey. If we remove a full 

 case we can often shake a large portion of the bees from the 

 sections, then by piling the cases in a box overspread by a 



