pers or crates ot the pound sections from 
each colony. The hives I now use are a 
trifle wider than those of the Princeton days 
and take a super holding thirty-two. I sel- 
dom fail, in fair honey-yielding summers, 
to have two of these filled by each colony — 
sixty-four pounds — sometimes more. The 
season for honey harvest is usually short, 
lasting from the middle of May to the mid- 
dle of July in the Eastern States, during 
white-clover and linden bloom. In the 
South and in California it is longer. In the 
Middle and Far West it is extended, and 
bees will store surplus honey throughout the 
early fall. Should we have any sections not 
completely filled with honey and nicely cap- 
ped over, we keep them until the next sea- 
son, putting them into the first crates that 
go on the hives. A few, or even one, of 
these will, after the husbanding of honey all 
winter, coax your pets at the opening of the 
season to go to work for you in the sections. 
Apiculturists call them "bait sections." 
THE KIND OF BEES TO GET. 
While there are different races of honey- 
bees, I have had no experience with any ex- 
cept the ordinary ' ' black ' ' (or perhaps ' ' hy- 
brid, ' ' for these two are not always readily 
distinguished) and the "Italian." The 
blacks are the native American bees, black 
in color, usually ill-natured in disposition, 
but as fine honey-gatherers as any. Hy- 
brids are so called because they are a cross 
between the black and the Italian. Usually 
they may be told by being less black, hav- 
ing some of the bright gold ring marks of 
the Italian; are excellent workers and less 
cross. The blacks cap their honey to great- 
er perfection than any other race, it being 
absolutely white, the honey under the cap- 
pings being even with the top of the cells. 
No honey is more captivating to the eye. 
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