416 HONEY PRODUCTION. 
and the Heddon, both patented. The former has frames of 
the same size as the regular Langstroth pattern, and is 
quite popular in Iowa. 
728. Reversing during the harvest does not cause the 
bees to gather any more honey; nay, they harvest even a 
little less, owing to the time occupied in transporting the 
honey, but tt is all placed in the surplus apartment at the 
mercy of their owner. 
A much safer method to induce the bees to work in the 
supers, is to place in them, nearest the brood, a few un- 
finished sections from the previous season.* The supers 
should be located as near the brood apartment as possible, 
with as much direct communication as can be conveniently 
given. 
729. But, with the greatest skill, it is impossible to 
attract the bees into the supers, as long as there are empty 
combs in the brood-chamber. 
If the queen is unable to occupy all the combs with 
brood, the empty ones should be removed at the beginning 
of the honey harvest, and either given to swarms or divided 
colonies, or placed outside of the division board (349). 
This is called ‘‘contraction.’”? We would warn our readers 
against excessive contraction, for, after the honey season 
is over, a hive which has been contracted to, say, two- 
thirds, of its capacity, has become dwarfed in honey, 
brood, and bees, and will run some risks through the Win- 
ter. Besides, that part of the super, which is above 
the empty space, is but reluctantly occupied by bees. 
“Tf the reader has ever constructed a hive, whose surplus 
department was wider than the brood chamber, jutting out over 
the same, he has noticed the partial neglect paid by the bees, to 
the surplus boxes which rested over wood instead of combs. 
«This is what Dr C. C. Miller calls a ‘‘ bait.’’ These unfinished sections 
have been emptied of their honey by the extractor, and cleaned by the bees 
the previous Fall. 
