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On Rational Bee-Keepmg, 
CHAPTER X. 
HONEY FROM SUPERS. 
We mentioned in the first edition of this Manual 
that we were glad to think that the barbarous 
system of stifling bees had completely died out 
in this locality. 
We were in error in making this assertion. 
Ignorance and prejudice have still kept up 
the system in several localities ; but those 
apiaries in which suffocation is practised are 
in bad condition, and in a short time the bee- 
masters to whom they belong will no longer 
have it in their power to carry on this insane 
practice, which amounts to working out the 
ruin of their own possessions. 
As a rule, with the idea of having the supers 
well filled, the fixists put on such as are too small 
for the requirements of the hive. After having 
filled them, the bees hang about the entrance 
