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and Feeding’). Two additional quilts of thick material, such 
as felt or carpet, are also placed over the calico and feeder 
to make the bees snug and warm. Another method, to be 
adopted only in cold or < 
damp weather, is to remove 
half: the frames, spacing 
the five remaining ones 
equal distances apart, then 
shake the bees in from the 
top. Swarms should be 
run into the hive in the 
evening about six o'clock. 
A swarm does not, as a 
rule, do more the first 
season than establish itself 
and store sufficient food 
for the winter. 
The second season the 
stock reaches full strength 
about May or June, and 
unless more room _ is 
provided the bees will 
swarm. 
The modern method is to prevent this, and obtain surplus, 
by giving room in advance of requirements by means of extra 
chambers called supers. These are of two kinds—section racks 
Fig. 22, for the production of comb honey, and shallow frame 
boxes, Fig. 23, to obtain extracted honey. The section rack 
contains twenty-one sections, which are purchased in the flat, 
Fig. 24; folded and fastened by lock joints they make a 
square 41 by 41 and 2 inches wide, Fig. 25. There is a 
groove in the centre into which 
very thin super foundation is 
pushed, Fig. 26, and secured by 
being gripped in the top, which 
is cut in half for the purpose, 
H | Fig. 25, and completed, Fig. 27. 
Fi. 28. The foundation must be 
placed so that the rows of cells 
run parallel with the top as on the right side, Fig. 28, and not 
diagonally as left side of the same illustration. The sections 
are placed in the rack in seven rows, three in a row, upon slats 
to allow the bees to pass into them. Between each row is a 
divider to prevent the comb from being built beyond the wood- 
work of the section; Fig. 29 makes this clear. 
Fig. 27. 
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