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comb, and already starting new combs in the empty 

 frames. The increase of room had come at the 

 right time. I hoped it might entirely prevent 

 swarming, as well as give abundant room for sur- 

 plus stores. The weather was warm and clear. The 

 clover kept opening its wealth of blooms. The bees 

 worked in an abandon of enjoyment. The combs 

 were built with surprising rapidity, and as fast as 

 built were filled with honey. In each super there 

 were nine frames to be filled with new comb. In 

 twelve days they had, in nearly all the hives, every 

 frame filled with new comb, and every comb filled 

 with honey waiting to be sealed. It would take no 

 small amount of time and honey for them to make 

 the wax and seal it. For my purpose it was just 

 as well to extract before sealed. 



Again I prepared to extract. As I hoped to find 

 no brood in the second stories, I prepared to handle 

 the frames in a little different manner. I went first 

 to the two hives most distant from the shop, took 

 six frames from the second story of each, then closed 

 the hives, and left them until they should be reached 

 in turn. The twelve frames were taken to the shop, 

 the honey extracted, and they were then taken to 

 the hive, where regular operations were to begin. 

 From the second story of this hive the twelve full 

 frames were taken, and the twelve empty frames 

 hung at once in their place, and the hives immedi- 



