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Advanced Bee Culture 



such that the work will move along smoothly, and in a systematic manner, 

 without any ''hitches." 



There is also another point to be considered in connection with the 

 use of queen-excluders when producing extracted honey, and that is the 

 freeing of the supers of bees b\- the use of bee-escapes. If tlu super 



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contains brood and, perhaps, the queen, the bees could not be induced 

 to desert by the use of an escape. If they did leave the brood, then 

 something would have to be done with the brood, as already mentioned. 

 In short, advanced bee culture has divided the hive into tw'o distinct 

 apartments — brond and surplus — and unless this division can be main- 

 tained, many profitable plans must be relinquished. The queen-excluding 

 honey-board enables the bee-keeper thus tn set a boundary beyond which 

 the brood can not go. 





