114 PLEA8VBABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



surplus may be stored in small-sized supers. On the 

 removal of these supers the stock m.ay be stimulated, 

 and converted into one of very satisfactory dimensions 

 by the time the next honey-flow commences. 



The lack of surplus, when favourable conditions for 

 the secretion and gathering of nectar are present, is 

 due to the fact that stocks, for want of proper manage- 

 ment, are not sufficiently strong at the commencement 

 of the honey-flow, and that supering is too long. de- 

 layed, sometimes to such an extent that the putting on 

 of supers is too late for any advantage to be derived 

 from the honey-flow. In order to emphasise the 

 necessity for timely supering, I may state that of 

 three swarms in one apiary, about the same weight, 

 and treated in an exactly similar manner as far as 

 the brood-nest was concerned, two gave over 40 lbs. 

 of surplus each ; while another, not supered, gave, of 

 course, nothing. The supers were intentionally left 

 off the last-mentioned swarm to prove to visitors the 

 inevitable result of procrastination when the time for 

 supering had arrived. 



Deained Honey. 

 Upon the brood-chamber of stocks in skeps, and 

 the " Ivo " bar-hive, the surplus honey will be stored 

 in a manner that reuders it necessary to remove and 

 slice the combs in order to obtain the honey. To this 

 process of obtaining honey from the combs there 

 caiinot be any reasonable objection, for, during the 

 honey-flow, sheets of foundation are very rapidly con- 

 verted into combs, and therefore little, if any, time 

 is lost by this method of procedure. 



