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GENERAL HONEY HARVEST. 
stores. In preparing prospectively for thus staring 
in the products of the 'hive, the Cultivator who pur- 
sues the storifying system, immediately after the 
swarming season is over, adds another story or box 
to the two of which his hive consists, placing it 
undermost, or as it is called by some Bee-Masters, 
Nadir-ing. The brood-combs contained in the up- 
permost story, will, as the young bees are hatched, 
be quickly filled with honey, and may be removed 
about the beginning of August. The top cover is 
then replaced on the next story in position, which 
was originally the lower, and is now the upper. In 
ordinary seasons, the bees will have ample time to 
lay in sufficient food for winter and spring use, after 
the abstraction of this portion of their stores. As the 
combs of the upper box are frequently found ad- 
hering by their lower extremities to the bars of the 
next, it will be necessary, before removal, to separate 
them by means of a very thin long-bladed knife or a 
fine wire, (a piano-forte string will answer well,) 
drawn through the hive at the point of junction. The 
operator will next expel the beos from this box or 
story, by lifting the top-cover, and blowing in a little 
smoke, which will cause the inhabitants to retreat 
quickly to the lower regions. The box may then be 
taken aw'ay, without the operator nmning the risk of 
the slightest annoyance. The same effect may be pro- 
duced by driving.* The honey found in this removed 
box, will not be all honey of the current season, and 
consequently is not so delicately fine. It is also 
* See in page 227 directions for the operation of driving. 
