COMB HONEY. 



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the super as by the method above mentioned, Dr. Miller re- 

 moves the entire super when nearly filled, without waiting for 

 the outside sections to be sealed, and the unfinished sections 

 of several supers are put together and given back to some 

 strong colony to be finished by them. This avoids much 

 handling of sections on the hive. 



Fig. 197. 



UNFINISHED SECTIONS THAT AKE NOT MARKETABLE. 



(Forty Years Amonir the Bees.) 



736. It often happens that the bees fasten the comb onlj^ 

 at the top of the section. For safe transportation it is very 

 important that it should be fastened to the section wall, all 

 around. To .secure this, not only do Apiarists use comb foun- 

 dation, but some have devised "reversible" section eases. When 

 the sections are turned ovei', the empty space now at the top, 

 .seems unnatural to the bees, and they hasten to fill it, making- 

 a solid comb in the section. But this is not the only method. 



"Years ago my sections were always fillcil so full by the bees, 

 that they carrieil very securely in transportation. ."Vfterwards I 



