i'tl'TY YEAES AMONG THE BEES 12? 



home field, unless I make the idiotic determination to keep all 

 at home with the almost certain result of obtaining no surplus. 

 I do not expect ever to have any positive knowledge upon the 

 subject, because if I could find out with certainty just what 

 number of colonies a given area would support in one year', 

 I have no kind of assurance that the same kind of year will 

 ever occur again. So I act upon the guess that in my locality 

 it is never wise to have more than 100 colonies in one apiary, 

 and possibly 75 would be better. 



SURPLUS AREANGBMENTS. 



The first surplus honey I obtained worth mentioning was 

 secured in boxes holding somewhere from 6 to 10 pounds. The 

 boxes had glass on one or more sides, and were placed on the 

 top of box hives. Then for a year or inoie my surplus was 

 extracted honey obtained with the old Peabody extractor (Fig. 

 2), in which the whole affair, can and all, revolves. 



SECTIONS. 



Then I started on sections of the four-piece kind, and later 

 used one-piece. I have used the 4% x 4^4 x 1% size much more 

 than any other. I have used a few hundreds of the tall sections, 

 but my market does not seem to like them any better than the 

 square sections, if as well. I have tried 4% square sections of 

 several widths, 1 15/16 inches wide, 7 to the foot, also 8, 9, and 

 10 to the foot. I have made some trial of plain sections, but 

 for my market I am not sure that there is advantage enough in 

 them to make me change from the two-beeway sections. 



T SUPERS. 



The T supers I use are 12% wide inside, just right for 

 eight- frame hives. Just why I adopted this size I do not 

 know, for at that time I was using 10-frame hives, and it was 

 a little awkward to use a super so much narrower than the 

 hive. But at least part of the time I used only eight frames 

 in the 10-frame hives. 



