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As the honey season approaches and colonies are getting 

 strong, the foundation can be worked out on a much larger scale. 

 Take a strong colony which is being fed with a dry-feeding dummy 

 on each side of the brood nest ; lift these feeders into an upper 

 storey with the bees crowding in them ; let full feeders take their 

 place below and fill up the upper chamber with frames having 

 full sheets of foundation, such frames standing not more than 

 4-inch apart. With a good colony most of these will be drawn 

 out within forty-eight hours, and a fresh set may be inserted. 



Though the foregoing will give the earliest and larger nujnber 

 of combs ready for the sections, there is a little extra trouble in 

 cutting them up, which may be considered objectionable ; but 

 then one has the opportunity of placing such combs in the rack 

 so that they may be bleached and produce the whitest of honey 

 comb. 



The foundation may he inserted at once in the sections, 

 when with long hives from six to nine may be placed in the usual 

 stock frame and inserted at the centre of the brood nest. In 

 warm weather these will be drawn out in about twenty-four hours, 

 when another set should be inserted. With smaller hives tiered 

 one above the other, one must wait till the first honey glut ; and 

 as mentioned in my Non-Swarming Pamphlet, crowd the brood- 

 chamber, place on a crate of sections, and keep them well covered 

 up. In twenty-four hours the foundation will be built out, when 

 another set is to be placed between the crate first arranged and 

 the brood-chamber. Within the same space of time another crate 

 can be placed under the other two ; but the upper one should 

 now be removed, and the vacant space allowed below the brood- 

 chamber to prevent swarming. As soon as it is found the bees 

 will not work out fresh sets next above the brood frames, such 

 removed crate of worked combs will prove of great advantage, 

 taking the place of a completed set that may be taken ofif. 



