254 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



however, most of the bees should be shaken off, for if this is 

 rightly done it will be a saving of time. 



FIKAL TAKING-OFF OF "BCTIONS. 



When the time comes that the bees are expected to do no 

 more work in the sections, whether that be immediately at the 

 close of the clover harvest or later, the supers with their sec- 

 tions are all brought home and piled up in the honey-room. On 

 some accounts it is better if the sections can be taken out of 

 the supers at once and taken care of, and on other accounts it 



Fig. 93. — Caged Queen-Cell. 



is better they should stand for some time. It is a, very difficult 

 thing to scrape the bee-glue from sections while the weather is 

 still hot, and as disagreeable as it is difficult. There may be 

 some unsealed cells of honey in the outer cells of some sections, 

 and this will have little chance to evaporate if it is thin, after 

 the sections are in the shipping-eases. So the sections are likely 

 to stand for some time in the supers after all are taken off, be- 

 ing blocked up as in Fig. 79. 



FUMIGATING SECTIONS. 



Formerly it was necessary to fumigate the sections with 

 sulphur after they were brought into the house, the fumigation 



