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surplus, but, as a rule, it simply becomes a most excellent colony, 

 with a young- queen, for carrying- through the winter. 



As the harvest draws to a close, an extracting super is put on 

 top of the sections, as has been already explained, or the unfinished 

 sections may be finished up by feeding back extracted honey, or the 

 sections nearest completion may be sold in the local market, and 

 those not sufi&ciently finished for this purpose, may be extracted, 

 and cleaned up by the bees, -when they will be ready to use as 

 "baits" to induce the bees to make an early start in the supers the 

 following spring. 



Photographed by H. B. Hill. 



