262 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



up in the honey-room. On some accounts it is better if 

 the sections can be taken out of the supers at once and 

 taken care of, and on other accounts it is better they 

 should stand for some time. It is a very difficult thing 

 to scrape the bee-glue from sections while the weather is 

 still hot, and as disagreeable as it is difficult. There may 

 be some unsealed cells of honey in the outer cells of some 

 sections, and this will have little chance to evaporate if 

 it is thin, after the sections are in the shipping-cases. So 

 the sections are likely to stand for some time in the 

 supers after all are taken off, being blocked up as in 

 Fig. 79. 



FUMIGATING SECTIONS. 



Formerly it was necessary to fumigate the sections 

 with sulphur after they were brought into the house, the 

 fumigation being repeated two or three weeks later. I 

 suppose I should now prefer bisulphide of carbon to 

 sulphur for fumigation, but for several years I have not 

 found it necessary to fumigate. Formerly the larvae of 

 the bee-moth would make bad work if fumigation were 

 omitted, and sometimes in spite of it, but now there is 

 no trouble. I don't know what makes the difiference, un- 

 less it be that formerly there was so large a percent of 

 black blood in my bees. 



When the time does come for taking the sections all 

 out of the supers, the work is gone at in earnest and con- 

 tinued until all the marketable sections are in their ship- 

 ping-cases ready for market. It will be understood that 

 all supers taken ofif before the last, have been handled as 

 heretofore mentioned, the marketable sections having all 

 been piled up in the honey-room and the others returned 

 as "go-backs," and the last lot taken off will consist of 

 every sort, from foundation untouched by the bees up to 

 sections entirely filled and sealed. 



