it down smoothly, put the cover on, set the 
hive where it is to remain, and they will do 
the rest. In the latitude of Philadelphia or 
New York, Cincinnati, or St. Louis prepare 
to fill your super with foundationed sections 
and put it on the hive May 1 to 10, accord- 
ing to the season. My belief is that, to se- 
cure honey in the section boxes under the 
most favorable conditions, they should be 
on the hive at least one week before white 
clover comes into bloom. This is to give 
your bees time to get the comb in the sec- 
tions all built, ready for honey to be rushed 
in the moment clover blossoms appear. 
In case your colony sends out a swarm, 
which it will likely do, shake them off the 
limb or bush where they have settled, upon 
the uncovered frames of your reserve hive. 
They will be at home there in ten minutes. 
Spread the enamel sheet over the frames as 
you did before, and put the cover on. Now 
carry your old colony that sent out this 
swarm to a new place a few feet away and 
put the swarm where the parent colony was 
before. The bees in the fields at the time 
the swarm emerged will all fly in at the old 
stand, reinforce the swarm, immediately 
making it very strong. Put a crate of sec- 
tions over them at once. They have no 
cells in the brood-nest yet, and can not have 
any under thirty-six hours, so that all the 
honey they bring in will go into the surplus 
boxes. They will give you more honey than 
will the old one, since the latter has been 
depleted at the very time of harvest. What 
you lose in honey, however, you gain in 
another colony, for you now have two in- 
stead of the little nucleus with which you 
began two months ago, and can sell either 
of them any day for $5. Thus, if you have 
not time to care for many, you can get back 
a considerable portion of your previous ex- 
pense by disposing of a colony, or several, 
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