2QO Arra7igement of Sections. 



extracted honey. The sections should be on at the very 

 dawn of each honey harvest, as white clover, basswood, 

 etc. At first the full set of sections better not be added, 

 but as soon as the bees commence to work well in them, 

 then all should be added, on side and top, if side storing is 

 practiced, and if vire w^ish to tier up, the crate of sections 

 first added should be raised and others added below. I like 

 this practice of tiering up very much. As soon as the bees 

 are working well in all the sections I raise the crate and 

 place another underneath. This is continued often till 

 there are three crates of sections on a single hive. As 

 already stated it is best not to have the sections too closely 

 shut in. Slight ventilation is desirable. 



If the queen troubles by entering the sections, use may 

 be mnde of the perforated zinc (Fig. 64), or better still the 

 queen-excluding honey board (Fig. 64), to keep her from 

 them. As already suggested, we must arrange the form and 

 size of sections as the market and our hives and apparatus 

 make most desirable. We may vary the size and form of our 

 sections so as to make them smaller and yet use the same 

 crates or frames that we used with larger sections. Small 

 sections are most ready of sale, and safest to ship; yet with 

 their use, we may secure less honey. 



If we can get nice straight combs by having them less 

 thick without using separators in the sections, so that these 

 latter can be readily placed side by side in shipping crates, 

 then we, by all means, better omit the separators. If we 

 use separators, we can use wood or tin. Wood is cheapest, 

 and I find that in practice it serves even better than tin. 



GETTING BEES INTO SECTIONS. 



The crowded hive or brood chamber, with no intent to 

 swarm, the wide spaces between sections, and a rich harvest 

 of nectar, will usually send the bees into the sections with a 

 rush. If they refuse to go, sections with comb, a little di'one 

 brood, or the exchange of sections temporarily from above 

 to the brood-nest, or the moving of a brood frame up 

 beside the sections for a short time, as before described, 

 will frequently start the bees into the sections. Some apia- 

 rists have their crates with sections so made that they can 



