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verting the frames. With experience will come the skill which 

 can accomplish this, simply by management of the bees with- 

 out resort to such measures as just described. 



EEMOVAL OF SECTIONS. 



The three-eighths inch space between the upper as well as 

 the lower bars of the sections enables us to see quickly the 

 condition of each section just by removal of the cover. Each 

 section should be removed as soon as capped, if we would have 

 it very nice. Any delay will make it dark and hurt its 

 sale. During tbe harvest we should add other sections to take 

 the place of those removed. Towards the close of the harvest 

 we should not add other sections, for, by contracting the space, 

 the last sections will be more surely filled and quickly capped. 

 To remove the bees from single sections taken from frame or 

 crate, we have only to brush them oif. If we take a full crate 

 at once, we can set it in a dark box or room, with some small 

 opening for the bees to escape. If the hole is at one side and 

 is covered by wire cloth, which should be separated from the 

 box three-eighths of an inch, by placing lath between it and 

 the box, and made to extend three inches above the opening, 

 outside bees will fail to enter, while those within will readily 

 pass out. I have used a box with no cover, and by spread- 

 ing a sheet on this the bees would collect on the sheet. I 

 would occasionally turn the sheet over. With the old boxes, 

 such arrangements were more necessary. Now, with smoke 

 and brush we can often dispense with other aids. 



As comb-honey is in better condition for market if it is 

 stored for a few days where the air can circulate freely about 

 it, it is always well to fumigate it by burning sulphur in a 

 close room or box. It is well to do this, even though the 

 honey is to be immediately shipped. 



