428 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 205. 



THE SUPER. 



Above this standard hive and beneath the cover, is placed a 

 shallow box oi: frame holding the comb-honey sections and called 

 a "super." The super is shown in figures 7-10, and is the store- 

 room of the hive, in which the bees place their' surplus honey. 

 Often several supers are placed on one hive. 



These supers may be used for either comb or extracted honey, 

 and are each fitted out differently with inside fixtures, the ex- 



Figure 8. Shallow ex- 

 tracting super. (After the 

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Figure 9. Plain section super. 

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tracting supers having 

 frames similar to those 

 of the brood chamber, 

 only much shallower. 

 These are also used in 

 the sectional brood 

 chamber hive described 

 on page 429. The sec- 

 tion box super is pro- 

 vided with, section hold- 

 ers or forms to hold the 

 delicate section boxes. 

 The slotted section super is the oldest and there are probably 

 more of them in use at present among beekeepers than any other, 

 but they are slowly being discarded for those of later design. One 

 important point in the construction of a super is simplicity. The 

 more parts there are, the more time it takes to keep them cleaned 

 of propolis, a gummy substance that the bees use to cover cracks 

 in the hive. This must all be scraped ofE each time a super is. 



Figure 10. Slotted section super. 

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(After the 



