184 PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY 
may store some surplus of extracted honey when they would not 
store in sections, it is only the strong colonies that pile up the 
profitable crops. No matter in what form one expects to market 
his crop, he must bend every energy to bring his colonies to the 
beginning of the honey flow in prime condition. 
Putting on Supers.—<As soon as colonies are crowding the 
brood chamber, it is time to give more room (Figs. 96 and 97). 
As the frames are the same as those occupied for the brood nest, 
Fic. 96.—Strong colony for extracted honey production. 
Fie. 97.—Colony that produced forty dollars worth of extracted honey in one season. 
no dithculty will be found in getting the bees to oceupy them, as 
encountered by the comb honey specialist. It is well to lift the 
hive up and place the extracting super underneath. By this 
means the bees will not be required to warm unoceupied space 
above the brood nest, and as fast as the honey comes in it will 
crowd the queen down, so that soon the upper hive will be full of 
honey and the queen and brood will be below. The objection to 
this plan is the accumulation of surplus pollen in extracting 
combs. If the empty super is placed on top without an excluder 
beneath there is a tendency for the queen to occupy the empty 
combs for egg laying, with the result that she will keep on going 
