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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
likely to present itself. But, on the other hand, it is 
clear that the brood-combs will not be quite free for 
honey for twenty-one days after nadiring even if the 
queen lays no more in them, and that extraction 
cannot, therefore, commence for several weeks ; while 
in the extractor, also, the newly-gathered pollen of the 
brood-combs may in part leave with the honey, giving 
to the latter a cloudy appearance. 
The plan of adding the second box above is admittedly 
not free from dangers, but, these being overpassed, it 
gives superior results, and hence would be adopted 
by the expert in honey-production as his experience 
enables him, by first getting his brood-nest almost 
wholly filled with eggs and larvae, to secure not only 
a big population, but future space for the queen to 
lay, as these are in succession converted into bees; while, 
by the movements of the foragers, he can gauge the flow 
of nectar and give new storage room ju§t in front of that 
which is required in addition to ventilation and shading, 
and thereby keep swarming in abeyance. If he adopt 
nadiring, it would be early in the season, during a 
moderate in-gathering, to be followed, in his calcula- 
tions, by a great flow, at the advent of which another 
set of combs would be placed on the top. For, if 
placed between, they would most probably be at once 
accepted by the queen as an invitation to unlimited egg- 
laying, and not only would brood be formed where 
honey was desired, but a very large part of the energies 
of the population would be absorbed in brooding, 
feeding, and sealing larvae, to become gatherers only 
when gathering is nearly or totally at an end. This 
question of the limitation of the production of brood 
