EXTRACTED HONEY - HONEY FLOW AND HARVEST—-Chap. XU. 
plan of swarming. Most of the old field bees are in the new hive below, stor- 
ing honey and starting housekeeping anew, while the young bees and cell- 
builders are in the upper or old hive where they are busily engaged in 
rearing a new queen. 
Swarm Prevention Without Increase. 
The above plan may be altered if no increase be desired. In that case, 
instead of moving the old hive to a new stand at the end of seven or eight 
days, the queen-cells of the upper story may be destroyed and the brood 
distributed to other colonies or left in its position at the top of the hive 
to increase the original colony. As the brood emerges the cells will be 
filled with honey, if the bees are gathering freely. 
Supering. 
When the queen is confined to the first story by means of the queen- 
excluder, about a week after the opening of the honey flow as already ad- 
vised, one comb, or better, two, should be removed from the super, pre- 
ferably one at each outside, and the remaining combs spaced an equal 
distance. These combs will, later on, be bulged with honey beyond the- 
edges of the frames. The super will thus hold a little more honey than if 
the full number of combs had been used with close spacing; but, what is 
tnore important, the fat bulged combs may be uncapped in much less time 
than is required for uneapping thin combs, and fewer combs are handled 
in extracting a given amount of honey. 
The fact that brood has been reared in these extracting-combs makes 
them stronger, easier to uncap and less likely to break in the extractor. 
Such combs may be used year after year, and they will grow tougher and 
better all the time. 
The beginner should never wait until the first super is entirely filled 
before putting on the second one; otherwise, this crowded condition may 
eause swarming. When the first super—that is, the second story which had 
been used for a time for brood-rearing—is a little over half full of honey, 
it should be set to one side temporarily, a second super put in its place, and 
then the first partly filled super placed on top. This can be done when the 
queen is put below the excluder. The second super should contain in the 
center the two combs taken out of the first super to permit the wider 
spacing, the rest of the room being taken up by wired frames containing 
full sheets of foundation, provided no other extra combs are available. 
Until the foundation is drawn out into combs the frames should be closely 
spaced in order that the foundation may be drawn out evenly. Here it 
should be said that combs are greatly to be preferred to foundation in 
extracted-honey production; and the more combs the extracted-honey pro- 
ducer has, the better. 
It does no harm to leave the extracting-supers full of honey on the 
hive till after the honey flow before extracting, stacking them up three, 
four or even six high if necessary. The nearly full supers should always 
be put on top, the additional ones underneath next to the brood-chamber, 
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