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it. In the case of a frame or bar super, after 
most of the bees have left it, it can be placed 
across a couple of rails or sticks, when the top 
cover may be unscrewed and detached. It is then 
readily cleared of bees by brushing them downwards 
between the bars with a feather or a twig. Single 
combs can, of course, with these supers, be extracted 
as they are ready, and empty bars substituted. 
The same general directions apply when a. full 
glass is to be removed. If it stands on a double 
board, a piece of tin or zinc can be inserted 
between the two, and the upper part then lifted with 
the glass. Payne, however, says, “‘I have found the 
process much simplified by placing an empty box 
between the glass and the parent hive, and leaving 
it a few hours. The bees by that time have quitted 
the glass, and by this plan robbing is entirely 
prevented, whilst the bees are less irritated.” It 
might occasionally happen that a piece of comb had 
been worked upwards from the underneath hive, 
thus causing a difficulty on attempting a separation. 
There is no better way of meeting such an emer- 
gency than by very gently passing a bit of fine wire 
or string beneath the lower edge of the super, from 
side to side, and thus cutting through the obstruc- 
tion. It may be well to observe that on removal, 
the box or glass ought to be kept in its original 
position, to prevent the honey, which at first is 
thin and fluid, from running out of the cells, and 
especially in hot weather. 
Honey Harvest.—As regards the quantity of honey 
to be taken from a hive in any one year, there can, 
