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I push the push-board down till the sections rest on the 

 board below. 



Fig. 70. — Bee Working on Bed Clover. 

 EXCEPTIONALLY TROUBLESOME CASES. 



The sections may fall that quarter of an inch with 

 their own weight, and they may not go down at all with- 

 out urgent coaxing. If the honey was stored with a 

 rush in the early part of the season, there will be very 

 little gluing, and the sections will come out easily. The 

 later in the season, and the slower the storing, the more 

 gluing, and the more trouble. If there is a lot of glue, 

 and if it is warm, stringy and sticky, it must be humored 

 a little. It can hardly be jerked loose suddenly any 

 more than if it was nailed ; but if it is allowed time 

 enough the weight of the sections may be enough to 

 bring them down. Of course a little insistence will 

 hasten matters to some extent, but it seems to be a matter 

 of principle with that kind of glue not to let go too sud- 

 denly. Sometimes I take a super of that kind and place it 

 low enough to sit down on the push-board, and then let it 

 take its time. When I feel it give way under me, I give 

 up my seat, unless I continue matters a little longer by 

 taking hold of the super at each end and lifting up while 

 still sitting on the push-board. 



