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place on a super when you think the fine weather has 

 come, and so secure your 3olbs. or 4olbs. of honey, or 

 less^or none at all, when on the other hand a rational 

 manipulation on your part will reward your endeavours 

 by the loolbs. and more, to each hive. 



Keep the brooc^ nest freely open for the queen, so that 

 her egg-producing powers may not be restricted, and see 

 that the supers are fully expanded for storage. Cramping 

 gives poor results, but a Jarge hive, with large surplus 

 room, will always, and will alone, be productive of heavy 

 yields. 



A large frame for brood-rearing, and a prolific queen of 

 a good Italian strain, will provide an immense force of 

 working bees. Native bees too readily crowd the queen 

 out with honey and large masses of pollen, so that the 

 population is limited, and even decreases at the most 

 critical time, hence the reason why the largest results are 

 seldom obtainable with the native bees in their purity. 



Now, dear Reader, granted you have the most suitable 

 hive, and the best bees for the purpose, and moreover 

 have carefully studied how to secure ^'our strong stocks, 

 and then how to control their natural inclination to swarm, 

 you are, 1 trust, fully prepared to gather in a very large 

 proportion of that delicious sweet so abundant all around 

 you. 



EXTRACTED HONEY 



is that which is removed from the combs by centrifugal 

 force, without breaking them up ; while the liquid is con- 

 sequently clear, and of far superior quality to that which 

 by old-fashioned methods was obtained by straining the 

 whole mass of honey, pollen, and larvae, through a cloth. 



A common practice is that of removing the honey 

 before the cells are capped over, and large weights of such 

 " green stuff" are often boasted of. As a matter of fact, 



