FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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the troublesome cases, but these are the exceptional ones, and 

 in general the work is easy enough to be done rapidly. 



TAKING OUT UNFINISHED SECTIONS. 



The empty super being set down and the pusli-board 

 removed, the unfinished sections are picked off, and the super 

 is put back on the sections as it was before. Then the super 

 and the board under it are reversed, and the board lifted off. 

 Finished sections from another super used for that purpose are 



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Fig. 70 — Bee Working on Red Clover. 



put in to take the places of the unfinished sections that were 

 removed, and the super with its 24 finished sections is put on 

 the pile. 



BLOCKING UP SUPERS OF SECTIONS. 



The piles of finished sections are 20 supers high, the piles 

 being about 6 inches from each other and from the wall. Four 

 blocks % of an inch thick are placed under the corners of the 

 first super in the pile, and four are put on the corners of each 

 super before the next super is placed over it. This for ventila- 

 tion (Fig. 79). The sun has a fair chance to make this room a 

 pretty warm place, and screened doors and windows allow free 

 passage for the air. 



FUMIGATING SECTIONS. 



Tears ago it was very important to fumigate these sections, 

 or else a good many of the larvae of the bee-moth would dis- 



