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HONEY PRODUCTION. 



725. These principles are based on the difficulties, that 

 have to be overcome in comb-honey production, as follows ; 



1st. Inducing the bees to work in small receptacles; 



2d. Forcing them to build the combs straight and even, 

 without bulge, so that the sections can be interchanged with- 

 out being bruised against one another, when taken off and 

 crated for market; 



3d. Keeping the queen in the brood apartment, and pre- 

 venting her from breeding in the sections'; 



4th. Preventing swarming as much as possible; 



5th. Arranging the sections so as to have as little propolis 

 put on them as possible (237) ; 



6th. Getting, the greatest n^mlber of sections thoroughly 

 sealed, as unsealed honey is unsalable. 



Fig. 189. 



rULL DEPTH SECpON FRAME. 



(From "Bees and Honey.") 



726. 1st. Inducing bees to work in "small kecbptacles. 



Rather than work in small, empty receptacles, the bees 

 sometimes crowd their honey in the brood chamber, till the 

 queen can find no room to lay irv, and swarming, or a smaller 

 crop o£ honey, is the consequence. To remedy this evil, some 

 of our leading bee-keepers have resorted to an old, discarded, 

 French practice, "reversing." Reversing consists in turning 

 -the brood chamber upside down and placing hives containing 

 empty combs, whose bees died the preceding Winter, or empty 



