A YKAIi AMONG THE BICES. 
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at this time I used 10 brood-frames, tliese latter were iirst 
tilled. 
Later I came down to 8 brood-frames and used means to 
bait the bees at once into the sections. In the super I put 
only 6 wide frames, putting in the center a frame of brood, 
bees and all, from the brood-chamber, and closing up the 
remaining 7 brood-frames with a division-board. 
The Iirst two wide frames were put in as usual, and the 
third reversed, so as to present the open side next the brood- 
comb, then came the brood-comb, and the remaining three 
wide frames. Thus, the brood-comb had on each side of it 
eight sections opening toward it, and in most cases the bees 
would begin to draw out the foundation in all l(i of these 
sections, within 48, if not 24 hours. If left just in this shape 
the bees will go on rapidly storing, and begin work on 
adjoining frames, but there is some danger that the queen 
may lay in the sections next the brood-frame. Moreover, as 
soon as a section facing the brood-comb is filled, the bees 
will commence sealing it with dark cappings, caused. I 
suppose, by their taking wax from the brood comb, so con- 
veniently near. So in about a week these frames of sections 
which are already started, change places with their next 
neighbors, the fresh ones having their open sides next the 
brood-comb. A week later the bees will have the work well 
on, in the four frames, when the brood-comb may be returned 
below, or used otherwise. Then these four frames of sections 
in which the bees are at work are alternated with three 
empty ones, and the bees left to till the 56 sections. 
If, however, as is usually the case, more room is needed, 
after putting the 7 frames of sections in the super, as just 
mentioned, a second super is placed above. In this a wide 
frame is placed at the north side of the super, then a brood- 
comb, then two or three more wide frames and a dummy, 
the brood-comb serving as a bait, to be moved farther toward 
the south as fast as not needed at the north. It might be 
thought that the bees would not readily find their way around 
outside of the dummy of the first super, up into the second 
