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of the hive during the time which is most 
favourable for gathering. 
The bee-master thinks it is his duty to wait 
for the issue of a swarm which, after all, never 
leaves the hive, and he thus loses all the honey 
which the bees would have collected during this 
time, and which would have been worth quite 
as much to him as a swarm. I have sometimes 
placed supers or wooden hives of the capacity 
of from 30 to 32 lbs. of honey over straw hives, 
and these supers have been filled in a fortnight 
or three weeks, whilst the bees of those hives 
on which I had placed a super of the capacity 
of 8 or 10 lbs. only, were losing their time, and 
remaining inactive for want of space to store 
their honey. 
We therefore advise our readers, unless they 
are desirous of making artificial swarms, not 
to be afraid of placing hives with moveable bars 
of the capacity of about 30 lbs. over strong hives, 
for, as a general rule, the bees will fill them. 
This result may easily be obtained in a toler- 
ably good honey season, at the foot of the 
Jura and the Alps, and even in fertile plains 
near the woods. 
In order to drive the bees from a super. 
