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super I had filled was on a two-story colony. But I was never 

 able to have that thing repeated, and whatever tlie reason may 

 be, I have not been able to make a success of putting comb- 

 honey supers on two-story colonies. Even if the two-story plan 

 would work all right it involves much extra lifting. 



REDUCING TO ONE STORY. 



So before putting on supers tlie colonies are reduced to one 

 stoi-jf each. If a colonv' has 9, 10, or more frames of brood, all 

 but 8 are taken away. The surplus frames of brood are given 



Fig. 42 — Hive-dummy. 



to those which have less than 8 frames of brood each, the effort 

 being to have in each hive 8 frames well filled with brood when 

 a super is given. The season may be such that it will not be 

 possible to have as many as 8 brood in each hive. A colony 

 strong enough to ha\e 6 frames well filled with brood is likely 

 to be in condition for good sujier-work, but the work will be 

 better if it has 7 or 8. On the other hand the season and the 

 early condition of the bees may be such that when each colony 



