94 THE BLESSED BEES. 



most favored places. Two days later it was so 

 abundant that the bees seemed in a quiet, happy 

 intoxication. Long before sunrise the earliest were 

 afield. Not until almost dark did the last belated 

 wanderer fly home with its sweet burden. 



Most of the frames in the first stories were nearly 

 or quite full of brood. It had been my persistent 

 effort to get these frames so full of brood, that when 

 the clover should open, there would be scarcely any 

 empty cells for storing honey in the lower stories, 

 and hence the bees, in their eagerness to find room, 

 would be willing to begin in the second stories at 

 once. These second stories had been kept near the 

 hives they were to go on, and provided with frames. 

 There were yet one hundred and eight frames of the 

 drone comb and inferior worker comb, which had 

 been stored away when transferring. Three of these 

 frames were put in each super. On the morning of 

 the second day after white clover opened the supers 

 were put on. First the lid of the hive was taken 

 off, and the quilt removed from the frames. Then 

 the second story was set on the first, the frames 

 adjusted at the proper distance, the quilt spread on 

 the frames, and the lid put on, making simply a 

 two-story hive, the lower story for brood, and the 

 upper for surplus honey. 



Next morning I examined a few supers, and in 

 every one found the bees at work repairing the old 



