no THK BEEKEEPERS DIRECTORY, 



Brood in the sections. 

 By our system of management for securing comb honey 

 together witli the section case above described, the queen has 

 never deposited an egg even in one section, and we never 

 have used any sort of a honey-board on the Bay State hive.- 

 Fig. 6 gives a good illustration of the section case and the 

 manner in which it is placed on the hive. 



■When to reverse and when to add another set of sections to the hive. 



As stated above, the sections should be reversed when the 

 honey in the middle sections is about one-third capped. Just 

 at reversing time is when another case of sections should be 

 placed on the hive. The partly filled set of sections are re- 

 moved, the empty set put on and then the case, partly filled, 

 is reversed and placed upon the empty case. 



Tliere are more bees in an ordinary colony than can work 

 to advantage in one case of twenty-four sections when it is 

 half filled. Hence the necessity of giving the bees additional 

 storage room. 



There are advantages of leaving the sections on the hive 

 after they have been filled. One of them is this : If the honey 

 is left on the hive several weeks after it is stored, it is much 

 better ripened and the quality much improved. On the other 

 hand the longer the honey is left on, tlie darker the capping 

 becomes and the marketable value is correspondingly de- 

 creased. Those who take honey to market (or as for that 

 matter any other goods) know that the eye must be suited 

 as well as the taste. This ought not to be,. yet it is so the 

 world over. The mail who takes fruit or vegetables to mar- 

 ket must put, the finest specimens on top or a hard sale will be 

 the result. The old Quaker said, " Put the best on top as 

 that is the place where buyers expect to find it." 



That is true and no doubt many of the readers of this have 

 found it so. In crating honey put the best where it will 

 meet the eye first and then the purchaser will get a good im- 

 pression of your goods to start with. When you have done 

 that, then continue to put just as good honey in other parts 

 of the crate and the purchaser will not only get a good im- 

 pression of the honey, but of the person who produced and sold 

 it, and your reputation as a square-dealing person will be es- 

 tablished at least to the extent of your sales. 



