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sections for use when the honey flow comes on again. If crates 
containing completed sections are left on when the honey-flow 
has so far fallen off as to make the bees cease storing in the 
supers, the completed sections will probably be more or less 
damaged in appearance by the bees. The beekeeper must bear 
in mind that if the honey flow ceases during the ordinary period 
of its continuance, it is frequently advisable and sometimes 
essential to supply the bees with syrup to prevent the stock 
dwindling (108). The beekeeper may prefer to let the bees take 
down the honey from the supers, but even that supply of food 
may be insufficient to maintain a stock at this period. Many 
stocks have perished from inattention to this matter. 
If 1t is preferred to use the wooden super-clearer (41), remove 
the lift (22) and place it on level ground 
eee close to the hive ; place the super-clearer on 
escape the lift ; then remove the crates that are to 
, be cleared (111), place them on the super- 
clearer, and at once replace them on the hive as before, but with 
the super-clearer underneath them. Bees will pass out from the 
crates by the super-clearer both by night and day, whereas they 
will only use the cone bee-escape (42) in the roof, when bees are 
flying in the daytime. 
Towards the close of the honey season it is necessary to provide 
for the completion of as many sections as 
114. ba inlenene of possible. When it is considered that the 
ar ee honey flow will not last much longer, all 
; the crates should be removed and taken to 
a room to which bees and wasps have not access. Then take 
out the sections, put away those that are completed, and replace 
the unsealed sections in an economic crate (29), putting the most 
advanced sections on the outer side of the crate, with the six 
section sides which are most thoroughly sealed to the front and 
back of the crate respectively, and the least advanced sections 
in the centre ; if there are not sufficient sections for an econcmic 
crate, one or two divisions of the divisional crate (80) may be 
used (116) ; then replace the crate of unfinished sections on the 
hive in order that the bees may fill and complete them cr take 
the honey down to the hive, as will be determined by the season. 
If there is little or no honey coming in, the uncompleted sections 
should be given to the bees behind the dummy, as described in 
paragraph 108, to empty as rapidly as possible. The empty 
sections may then be put away for use next season, taking care 
to wrap them up carefully in paper, cardboard boxes, or other 
suitable covering, so that they may be inaccessible to spiders, &c. 
If a spare economic crate is available, it will be most convenient 
: to fill the sections as described in paragraph 
115. Preparing 109, and then to separate them by cutting 
Divisional Section through the foundation between each pair 
Crate for Use. oF sections with a knife, or by breaking the 
connection by twisting the sections while holding them firmly, 
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