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sometimes lasts only a short time. From this it will be understood how 
imperative it is to have a large force of worker bees at the right time. 
The queen should be kept below by the use of a sheet of perforated 
zine. (Fig. 24.). The treatment of swarms has been described under 
the topic “swarming.” Add supers as they are needed, so that crowd- 
ing does not result. After the first super is about half filled with honey, 
lift it up and put the second super under it. This insures comb build- 
ing in the sections, which can later be filled with honey. It takes abund- 
ant nectar secretion for the bees to secrete wax, hence the comb in the 
Fig. 25.—Spring bee escape. 
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Fig. 26.—Bee escape in board. 
sections should be started early in the flow. If there is prospect of the 
honey flow coming to an end soon, it may be necessary to change su- 
pers again, in order to get the first sections filled out in first class con- 
dition. It may be desirable even to remove some of the supers at this 
time or a little later as the flow draws to a close. 
Comb honey production requires skillful manipulation of supers 
which the bee keeper acquires only by study and practice. Sections 
not filled and capped sufficiently for the market, should be retained for 
use as “bait” sections, for next year. These are put at the sides of the 
super where owing to the low temperature the bees are slow to build 
