The Townsend Bee Book 49 
I have told you heretofore that bees would bring up honey 
from below, and cap and finish sections for a week after the honey 
has ceased coming in from the field. Taking advantage of this 
fact we leave our comb honey on the hive until the end of this 
period. If this is the end of the first (or white) honey-flow, escape- 
boards are put in under every super in the yard; and when free 
from bees the supers are removed to the honey-house, and sorted. 
Those that are fit for the market are cased up, and the rest either 
“* fed back ’’ to be finished or the honey extracted. In the latter 
case these partly filled sections can be used for baits for the fall 
flow if there is a fall flow; if not, they are stored away until the 
next season, when they are used. 
I hate to be compelled to record the fact that three-fourths of 
the comb-honey producers practice the slovenly way of leaving 
their comb-honey supers on the hive clear through the season— 
that is, those partly filled supers at the end of the white-honey flow 
are left on the hive to be finished up with buckwheat honey. This 
makes a bad mess. The white-honey part of the section will be 
travel-stained, and covered with propolis. Then sections contain- 
ing two kinds of honey are never satisfactory. This practice is 
especially undesirable when there is an interval of three or four 
weeks between flows, as with the light and dark honey-flow in the 
Northern States. 
It is necessary that the comb-honey producer should have an 
extractor. It need not be so elaborate an affair as the extracted- 
honey producer would require; but, nevertheless, good comb honey 
can not be produced without one. Each kind of honey should be 
produced by itself as much as possible. The bees should never be 
allowed to commence a certain honey-flow unless all the honey of 
a previous flow has been extracted from the sections so they can 
commence anew and do good work. It is impossible for the bees 
to fix over an old job and make a satisfactory new one. 
If this class of beekeepers would only eat all the dirty honey 
they produce there would be no particular occasion for writing on 
this subject, for then they would hurt no one’s business but their 
own; but this is not the case, for no one can deny that such honey 
finds its way on the market. 
EXTRACTING-TOOLS; HOW TO PREVENT ROBBING WHEN THE 
EXTRACTING IS DONE DURING A HONEY-DEARTH 
The tools for the yard work in harvesting a crop of extracted 
honey consist of a Daisy wheelbarrow, two empty hive-bodies, two 
Coggshall bee-brushes, one of the latest four-inch smokers, and. 
