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"Take off each super when it is full." Now, will you please tell 

 me how totake care of the honey after taking it ofif, until I can 

 sell or eat it? If I take the super off and put it, no matter where, 

 the ants get at it. 



A. Keep the honey in a warm, dry, airy place. If warm and 

 dry it doesn't matter so much about being airy. A place where 

 salt will keep dry, and where it never freezes is a pretty good 

 place. One way to keep it from ants is to have it closed in some- 

 thing so tight-fitting that ants cannot get to it. That's a hard 

 thing to do, especially with a large quantity. An easier way is 

 to put it on some kind of platform supported on four feet, each 

 foot resting in some old dish or can kept supplied with some kind 

 of oil or water. Perhaps you can kill off the ants. If you can 

 trace them to their nest, you can give them a dose of bisulphide 

 of carbon, or gasoline. You can wring a sponge out of sweet- 

 ened water and put it where the ants will collect on it, then dip 

 ants and all in boiling water, repeating the performance until 

 you have used up the ants. This last you must, of course, do be- 

 fore the ants begin on the honey, for they may prefer the honey 

 to a sweetened sponge. 



Honey, Kind to Produce. — Q. I have been running my apiary 

 for chunk honey, but find that I can find a sale for quite a lot of 

 extracted honey. I have a few nice, straight combs on medium 

 brood-foundation, wired. What would be the storing capacity of 

 one colony with 1-inch foundation-starters, one colony with full 

 sheets of medium brood-foundation, as compared with a colony 

 with full-drawn combs; that is, if a colony with full-drawn combs 

 could fill 20 frames, about how much could the other respective 

 colonies fill, everything else being equal? I expect to use full 

 sheets of thin surplus for chunk honey, and full sheets of medium 

 for extracting. I ask these questions simply to have some idea 

 as to how much foundation of each kind to buy this season. 



A. I don't know. If you want me to guess, I'm willing to do 

 my best at guessing. I must premise that by saying that the 

 answer depends somewhat upon the flow. If a short and very 

 heavy flow is on, the fully drawn combs will have a much greater 

 advantage than they will have in a light and long-continued flow. 

 In the former case, while the colony with full combs stores 20 

 pounds, the colony with one-inch foundation-starters will store 

 from 10 to IS pounds, and the colony with full sheets of thin sur-" 

 plus from 12 to 17. With medium brood-foundation it ought to do 

 just a little better than with thin surplus. 



In the case of the long, slow flow, while built combs give 20, 



