36 BEEKEEPING 



constitute what are called the "brood 

 chambers" and they are reserved exclu- 

 sively for the personal use of the bees in 

 spring and summer for rearing brood, 

 and later for storing food for winter. 

 They are never drawn upon by the bee- 

 keeper as a source of honey although sim- 

 ilar frames contained in another hive 

 body and placed on top of the brood 

 chamber may be filled entirely with honey 

 as a surplus stock. This honey of course 

 could not be eaten as "comb honey," but 

 would have to be removed from the comb. 

 This arrangement is the source of the ex- 

 tracted honey which is so common on the 

 markets to-day. 



The super of the hive is that portion 

 provided for the storing of the surplus 

 honey and may consist either of a hive 

 with standard frames for the production 

 of extracted honey or it may be much shal- 

 lower and equipped with sections in which 

 the bees can build new comb each time to 

 fill with honey. In the case of extracted 



