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here. The excluder and super of section boxes are added and 

 when this is about half filled another is inserted between. More 

 are 'added as long as there is a prospect of their being finished, so 

 that sometimes there are four or five on at once. Finished section 

 honey should be removed from the bees as soon as completed. It 

 sometimes takes but a few days to become soiled. 



As stated previously, with the regular depth frame, bees are 

 sometimes slow to enter the super, because of insufficient numbers 

 or because of three or four inches of capped honey along the top 

 bar of the brood frame, or because the honey flow is not plentiful 

 enovigh. One or two sections of foundation should be removed 

 and replaced with some that are partly drawn. These are called 

 "Bait sections" and will generally bring about the desired result, 

 and when the bees have once conmienced to work in them there 

 will be no further trouble. 



Extracted Honey. 



To produce extracted honey also requires a large force of bees 

 in each hive. Weak colonies should be built up or united in ad- 

 vance so that all will be at full strength when the flow arrives. 

 Either of the above hives can be used with supers the same size 

 as the brood chambers or with shallow extracting supers. The shal- 

 low ones will probably be foimd the most satisfactory. After the 

 combs are built, nine frames should be used in a ten-frame, or 

 seven in an eigh^i-frame hive. This restilts in thick, fat combs 

 that are more easily uncapped. The excluder should be used. 



When to Put on Supers. 



To produi;e fancy comb honey, full sheets of thin or extra thin 

 ioimdation should be used in the section boxes. These should be 

 prepared and the supers ready in advance so that there will be no 

 delay when they are needed. This will be about the middle of 

 May if the season should be early and plenty of fruit bloom near 

 by, or the first to the middle of June for clover. A good rule is to 

 put on supers, either for comb or extracted honey when the combs 

 begin to show white along the top bar and the brood nest appears 

 crowded with bees. 



