HOW TO PRODUCE COMB HONEY 



sulkers to work, so that in a day or so the 

 colony will be working with vim and energy, 

 in striking contrast to their idleness of a few 

 days before. 



If this does not work, another good plan is 

 to give the colony a good smoking, driving 

 almost the entire force up into the supers, 

 and often this will accomplish the desired 

 result, but should this not succeed, then there 

 is one plan more that can be worked, which 

 I have never known to fail. Lift from a good 

 working colony, in which the bees are work- 

 ing in full blast on the sections, the entire 

 super, bees and all, and place it on the sulking 

 hive, and it will not be long before the colony 

 will catch the fever of the force above and begin 

 to work, and as the bees transferred will return 

 to the hive from which they were taken, no 

 loss of its working force will ensue. A disad- 

 vantage of smoking the bees out of the comb 

 honey supers is that as soon as we smoke them 

 a lot of bees are certain to uncap many cells 

 in their endeavor to fill up before going below, 



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