THE PRODUCTION OF HONEY. 
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will be ready w'ith her eggs the moment a few cells 
are psrtly finished in the brood-nest; and if the latter 
has been properly contracted, she will easily keep pace 
with the comb-building. The result is that nearly 
all the honey goes into the supers, where it is stored 
in the most marketable shape, and the combs in the 
brood-nest are filled almost entirely with brood.’’ 
It has been objected to this system that the brood- 
nest would thus get in large part filled with drone- 
comb.- To this I can reply, from direct experiment, 
that the stricture is unfounded unless there be mis- 
management. The bees perfectly well recognise that 
breeding can only be carried on beneath the excluder, 
and they follow their usual course, viz., they build 
worker-comb to accommodate the brood, and occupy 
outlying parts, if such be given, with store, for which 
drone-comb is constructed. 
In hiving this summer (July 8th), upon six standard 
frames with starters only, 51b. of Cyprians, headed 
by Madame la Voyageuse (page 350), I placed, 
at the same time, a 241b. section crate above, con- 
taininor about ten boxes of- extracted comb, and 
the remainder foundation. Every part of the crate 
was filled with bees the same afternoon. The sections 
were completed perfectly to the bottom rail, their 
caps, of course, being thin, and too transparent, as 
is the practice with Cyprians; but no speck of pollen 
was added. The brood- nest was filled with un mixed 
worker, except about a quarter of an outside comb, 
which was drone. At the removal of the super, the 
brood extended, in all but the side combs, absolutely 
to the top bar, the attachment cells being rounded 
