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A YEAR AMONG THE BEES. 
outside shall be a fair index of the entire contents of the 
crate. In the long run there is money to be made by it, to 
say nothing of the feeling of . satisfaction. 
Any sections which are not enough lilled to go into the 
second-class crate, are set to one side to be extracted, unless 
some of them are saved to be used as bait in supers during 
the next season. The sections to be extracted are put in 
wide frames without separators, uncapped, and extracted in 
a Peabody extractor. If I had much extracting to do, I 
Shipping-Crate for one tier of Sections. 
should get a better extractor, and I suppose I might have 
something better than a wide frame to hold the sections, but 
I have so little extracting to do that I use just what I happen 
to have. 
After these unfinished sections are emptied of honey, I 
get the bees to clean them. One way is to put a lot of them 
on a hive ; another is to pile them up in supers out-doors, 
covering them up and leaving a hole only large enough for 
one or two bees to pass at a time. If they were left entirely 
open, the sections would be torn to pieces, and possibly rob- 
bing started ; but I have never known any harm to result 
where only one or two bees were allowed to pass at a time. 
When cleaned by the bees, these sections are filled into 
supers and piled up in the shop ready for the next season. 
I have used, generally, shipping-crates holding 24 one- 
pound sections, the sections being two tiers high in the crate. 
I have used some bolding only a single tier. These latter 
