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should make a practice of leaving honey out over escapes till 

 the next day, some one none too scrupulous might learn the 

 trick and by a night visit save me the trouble of taking off some 

 of the honey. So whatever honey is taken off any day is got 

 into the house before we get to bed that night; for sometimes 

 it happens that when we have a big day's work at an out-apiary 

 we do not get home till 8 o'clock or later. 



Fig. 65 — One-cent Cage. 



SMOKING BEES DOWN. 



When a super is to be taken off, smoke is blown down into 

 it until a sufficient number of bees have gone down out of it. 

 What that sufficient number is depends upon circumstances. 

 If it is early in the day, and we do not care to take the honey 

 home till late, there is no need to drive out so many bees. Other 

 circumstances may also' make a difference, and we " cut our coat 

 according to the cloth." 



SUPERS STANDING OPEN. 



Suppose the honey-flow is in full blast, and we commence 

 to take off supers early in the day, or at least in the forenoon. 



