FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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brood-nest. On the same principle she would go up into 

 the sections if drone-comb were there, and nearly always 

 when I find brood in the sections it is drone-brood. With 

 small starters in sections there is plenty of chance for 

 building drone-comb, but when the sections are full of 

 worker foundation there is n,o chance for it, hence no 

 special temptation for the queen to go above unless very 

 much crowded for room. 



Fig. H. — Watering-Crock. 



PREPARING SUPERS OF SECTIONS. 



This work is done in the winter, or at least so early 

 in spring that it will not interfere with other work, but as 

 an understanding of it may help just a little toward under- 

 standing some of the summer work, I will talk about it 

 here. 



CLEANING SUPERS AND T TINS. 



The propolis is scraped from the supers by means of 

 the hatchet already mentioned. Cleaning T tins is an- 



