COMB HONEY-——SECURING FULL SECTIONS. 83 
The supers should be removed as fast as fairly filled. The bees are 
slow in sealing over the outside sections; therefore it is better not to 
lose time waiting for these to be be completely capped, but replace the 
whole with a new set. Some prefer to lift up the super when about 
three-fourths completed and place the empty one below—that is, between 
it and the brood chamber. 
The objection to this plan is 
that by the time the sections 
placed above have been fully 
completed they will have 
more or less propolis daubed 
on them and the combs will 
be considerably soiled by the 
bees running over them. A 
better plan to secure the 
completion of the outside 
sections is, after removing a 
number of supers, to select <——" 
enough incomplete sections  Fie.59.—Langstroth hive with combined surplus case and 
to fill one super, which is Spee cae eal) 
then placed on a strong colony for completion, or the partly filled sec- 
tions may be used in the middle of new supers as bait sections to induce 
the bees to cluster and begin work in them at once. 
Notwithstanding such precautions for the prevention of swarming as 
shading the hives, ventilation, having only young queens, and the 
removal of the outside combs, 
substituting for them frames of 
= ) foundations or starters near the 
center of the brood nest, swarms 
will sometimes issue, especially 
from hives devoted to comb- 
honey production. The best 
plan in this case is to hive the 
swarm in a clean new hive 
whose frames have been filled 
with starters and place this on 
the stand of the parent colony, 
moving the latter to a new 
position 6 or more feet away. 
The swarm in its new quarters 
will then be joined by the rest 
of the field workers from the parent hive, and the whole force, reunited 
and having for some days no brood to care for, will constitute a strong 
colony for storing honey. The super of partly finished sections should 
be lifted, bees and all, from the parent hive and placed on the brood 
chamber of the new colony. 
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Fic. 60.—Honey shipping-cases. (From Gleanings.) 
