FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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lowance must be made for unfinished sections, and some 

 supers will be put on rather late when it is not certain 

 anything at all will be done in them. So remembering 

 the old adage, "It is better to be ready and not go than to 

 go and not be ready," it is well to be prepared with a good 

 number, even if they are carried over to a later year, and 

 I have had sections used satisfactorily after they had been 

 filled five years. 



Fig. 41.~MiUer Feeder Dissected. 



SHOP FOR BEE-WORK. 



The shop (Fig. 71) in which the filled supers are 

 stored is a plain wooden building 18x24, two-story, with 

 a bee-cellar under it. The bee-cellar, however, has not 

 been used for a few years, not because it might not be 

 better to use it, but because it is more convenient to have 

 the bees all in the one cellar under the dwelling-house. 

 The upper story is used for storing empty supers, hives 



