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For convenience at such times most bee-keepers have strips of 
canvas or muslin, large enough to cover a pile of supers, which 
are called robber cloths. It is well to remove the supers at once 
to the honey house where they will be safe from visiting bees. 
The honey house should, of course, be so tight that no bee can find 
its way in, but with escapes at the tops of the windows to make 
it easy for any chance bees to get out. In bringing in honey 
from the apiary it will frequently happen that a good many bees 
will still remain in the supers. If the house is properly con- 
structed they will make but little trouble as they will fly to the 
windows and escape. (See Honey House in next chapter. ) 
Removing Sections from Supers.—The super springs already 
described make it easy to loosen the follower board which will 
give room to work. Each section holder ‘may now be crowded 
over into the vacant space and removed with its sections. A 
better way is to push the whole lot out at one time. There are 
two ways of doing this. Either have a form the size of the inside 
of the super and set the super on it; with a mallet or other 
object drive the super down outside of it, leaving the section 
holders and their contents on the form; or have an empty super 
on which to set the filled one upside down. Then by carefully 
jarring the section holders they mav be pushed down into the 
empty super. As soon as loosened fully from the propolis and 
wax they may be lifted out. A little experience will greatly 
facilitate matters in thus removing the sections. As a rule the 
novice will break a number of sections before he learns how to 
proceed without injuring the honey. 
After the sections are taken from the supers they should be 
sorted and all unfinished sections replaced in the supers to be 
replaced on the hives to be finished if the season is not too far 
advanced, or set aside to serve as bait sections next season. 
Fumigation.—Unless the season is so far advanced that freez- 
ing weather is at hand, some precaution will be necessary to 
insure that none of the crop is spoiled by wax moths in storage. 
At any rate comb honey should not be long subjected to freezing 
