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"Take off each super when it is full.” Now, will you please tell 
me how to take care of the honey after taking it off, until I can 
sell or cat it? If I take the super off and put it, no matter where, 
the ants get at it. 
A. Keep the honey in a warm, dry, airy place. If warm and 
dry it doesn't matter so much about being airy. A place where 
salt will keep dry, and where it never freezes is a pretty good 
place. One way to keep it from ants is to have it closed in some- 
thing so tight-fitting that ants cannot get to it. That’s a hard 
thing to do, especially with a large quantity. An easier way is 
to put it on some kind of platform supported on four feet, each 
foot resting in some old dish or can kept supplied with some kind 
of oil or water. Perhaps you can kill off the ants. If you can 
trace them to their nest, you can give them a dose of bisulphide 
of carbon, or gasoline. You can wring a sponge out of sweet- 
ened water and put it where the ants will collect on it, then dip 
ants and all in boiling water, repeating the performance until 
you have used up the ants. This last you must, of course, do be- 
fore the ants begin on the honey, for they may prefer the honey 
to a sweetened sponge. 
Honey, Kind to Produce. — Q. I have been running my apiary 
for chunk honey, but find that I can find a sale for quite a lot of 
extracted honey. I have a few nice, straight combs on medium 
brood-foundation, wired. What would be the storing capacity of 
one colony with 1-inch foundation-starters, one colony with full 
sheets of medium brood-foundation, as compared with a colony 
with full-drawn combs; that is, if a colony with full-drawn combs 
could fill 20 frames, about how much could the other respective 
colonies fill, everything else being equal? I expect to use full 
sheets of thin surplus for chunk honey, and full sheets of medium 
for extracting. I ask these questions simply to have some idea 
as to how much foundation of each kind to buy this season. 
A. I don’t know. If you want me to guess, I’m willing to do 
my best at guessing. I must premise that by saying that the 
answer depends somewhat upon the flow. If a short and very 
heavy flow is on, the fully drawn combs will have a much greater 
advantage than they will have in a light and long-continued flow. 
In the former case, while the colony with full combs stores 20 
pounds, the colony with one-inch foundation-starters will store 
from 10 to 15 pounds, and the colony with full sheets of thin sur- 
plus from 12 to 17. With medium brood-foundation it ought to do 
just a little better than with thin surplus. 
In the case of the long, slow flow, while built combs give 20, 
