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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
to support it. I proved many years ago that comb 
could be stored, on both sides,* with honey, ever; if 
it stood at a very considerable angle, in which some 
of the cells were more nearly perpendicular than hori- 
zontal. The manner of filling-in store, as explained 
at page 174, Vol. I., shows this to be possible. 
Capping, added at the lower margin, is made to 
grow upwards and around as honey is added, until 
the finally-placed wax shred closes all in. 
If the dip of the cell caused the desired removal, 
It would do so at any time while honey is being 
gathered or syrup-food taken, and the effect need 
not be limited to periods of rapid breeding, as Mr. 
Heddon states, and as my own experiments have fully 
shown it must be. It is the unnatural position of 
the honey, as beneath the brood, which acts mainly 
in causing its removal above ; and this being so, 
we learn at once, that a horizontal division of the 
brood-nest, made to consist of two shallow body- 
boxes, rather than one deep one, enables us so to 
manipulate without inversion that this desired effect 
may be obtained. We have only to interchange the 
lower with the upper — i.e., to carry the honey down 
and the brood up, as can be at once accomplished 
in the Carr-Stewarton or the Bingham. But it logi- 
cally follows from what has been already said, that, 
even with inversion, the honey will only be transferred 
to the normal bottom corners of the comb, unless 
these have already become occupied with brood. 
* ]\lr. Cornell, of Ontario, has informed me, since the above was 
written, that he placed a comb of store flat over a stock to feed it, and 
that, after the removal of the honey, the queen laid in the cells of the 
under side, and, as the brood hatched out, storing and sealing followed. 
