146 PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY 
honey flow comes it is important to make it possible for all bees 
to work and also important to save every unnecessary tax on their 
energy. In too many apiaries a single super with sinall starters 
will be placed on the hive and half the working force will be 
loafing for lack of storage room. Not more than a dozen bees 
are required to cover the bits of starter used by some. 
The small compartments in which the bees are forced to 
Iria. 74.—The Pangburn foundation fustencr and sections filled with foundation. 
work when storing in seetions are unnatural, and considerable 
skill is sometimes necessary to get them started to work there at 
all. The small spaces make it impossible for the bees to cluster 
in large bunches as they do naturally when comb building. A 
dozen or two of bees will find it hard to reproduce a natural con- 
dition, but «a full sheet offers much better opportunity. The 
wax which they need is already prepared to a large extent and a 
sufficient number can work together to assist in warming the 
wax and to encourage each other. 
The method generally practised among large producers is to 
