192 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



KEEPING TALLY OF SECTIONS. 



The number of the colony from which each super is taken 

 is marked in pencil on one of the middle sections, perhaps when 

 the super is first taken from the hive, certainly before it is taken 

 from the hive entirely. A board or a slip of paper is kept 

 where the supers are piled, and as each super is taken to the 

 pile the number of the hive and the number of sections in the 



Fiij. l>7 — Jnmbo Hive (nl rii/ht.) 



super is taken. Occasionally the number of supers in the pile 

 is counted, so as lo see whether it tallies with the number taken 

 on the memiiiandum, lor without this there is danger that some 

 super might be forgotten, and the colony not have proper credit. 

 Wlien convenient, possibly while we sit resting a little while 

 after the sujiers arc all piled, possibly not till the next morning, 

 the numbers (jn the memorandum are used to give each colony 

 its proper credit in I lie record-book. 



C'liEDITING COLONIES. 



The credit to cacli colony is entered over the first line that 

 belongs lo thai colony, so that it may easily be seen at a glance, 



