72 PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING 
a form of storing which makes much extra work 
for their owner. This question of getting all 
work finished off applies in a much greater degree 
to sections. Unfinished sections are unsaleable. 
At the best they can only be extracted, and it is 
poor economy to extract sections. To ensure ~ 
their being finished off, the finished sections should 
be taken from all the racks as soon as the supply. 
of nectar is seen to be failing, and full racks 
made up of the unfinished ones that are left. 
These racks must then be placed upon the very 
strongest stocks and wrapped up warmly. By 
these means the bees will be induced to complete 
them. 
Swarming is usually the chief trouble to many 
bee-keepers at this time, and every means possible 
should be used td avoid this trouble if a large 
amount of surplus is required. The best method 
for checking it and dealing with the swarms has 
been pointed out elsewhere, but there are a few 
other points well worth mentioning. One of these 
is that if sections are worked for, the number of 
swarms will be much above the average. Bees 
intensely dislike these little boxes, with their tiny, 
cubicles and general lack of space. It is not a 
natural way, in which to compel them to build 
comb, and consequently the great majority of such 
stocks throw off swarms. These swarms must be 
treated strictly on the lines indicated, as regards 
hiving them on the old stands and giving them 
the supers. 
