162 PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY 
the other (Fig. 77). This is made with about one-third of its 
surface covered with a double screen. Double wire cones make it 
possible for the bees to go down easily but difficult to find their 
way back. The principal advantage of this excluder over the 
other is the ventilation, which prevents the melting down of the 
combs in extremely hot weather. While this happens rather 
infrequently, conditions occasionally are such that honey will 
melt badly in unventilated supers. Over these ventilated escapes 
the air will be kept moving by fanning bees below, even if none 
are left in the super, and the bad effects of the heat will be 
avoided. 
If it is desirable to remove the super before the outside rows 
of sections are finished they may be set aside and replaced in 
other supers. 
Closing the Season.—Unless there are unfinished sections 
which may be left on the hive in the hope of finishing during 
the fall flow, it is usually advisable to remove the comb honey 
supers at the close of the main harvest and to replace with ex- 
tracting combs to catch any light fall flow. In localities where 
the fall flow is such that comb honey can be produced profitably 
this will not apply. In many localities the fall flow is so light 
that the sections will not be well finished and if marketable at all 
few of them will grade better than number two. Unless one can 
produce comb honev of the best quality it is better to have it 
stored in the extracting combs. 
When one comes to remove honey in wholesale quantities 
after the close of the flow it will be necessary to proceed carefully 
or there will be much annoyance from robber bees dodging into 
the sections and flying home with a load. Let a few bees get away 
successtully in this manner and shortly the air will be full of 
bees intent on finding the source of supply. At such times it 
becomes very difficult for the operator to work and there is 
greatly inereased danger from stings. Everything should be 
kept closed as carefully as possible and when the supers are 
removed they should be covered at once. 
