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pen that the upper starter will not be fastened securely its entire 
length, although this, would not be noticed in ordinary handling. 
If such a section be put next the hive under another super, the 
bees will cluster upon it and drag it down. If it be put on top the 
bees will very gradually occupy that super, and will fasten the 
starter securely before any special weight be put upon it. In most 
cases the top super will not have much done in it, but will be 
ready to be put down as the lowest one, and a fresh empty super 
will be put on top. When the flow is on the wane some care must 
be taken not to have too many unfinished sections, and then the 
empty super is not put below, but if the bees need more room they 
can work up into the super on top. 
Q. When there is a good honey-flow, and two supers full of 
honey, would it be best to take the two supers off and put on the 
third on top of the two, so as to give the honey a better chance 
to ripen? 
A. With a good flow on, it will probably never happen that it 
will be good practice to take off the two supers that are on, and 
leave the colony with one empty super. For the bees should 
always have at least plenty, if not abundance, of room, and so a 
third super should always be given before the first two are ready 
to be taken off. In my own apiary, a good flow being on, a super 
is not often taken off before three or four supers are on, and in a 
few cases there may be as many as seven or eight on. When the 
first two are pretty well filled, a third super is given below them, 
and likely enough another on top. All this referring to a bee- 
keeper running for section honey. With extracted honey all may 
be left on until the close of each particular flow, if not to the close 
ot the entire season, or the honey may be extracted whenever it 
is ripe. The third super is generally given below, a queen-ex- 
cluder being used. But E. D. Townsend, a very successful bee- 
keeper, gives the empty super above, dispensing with the excluder. 
He says the combs filled with honey act as an excluder to keep the 
queen from going up into the empty super. 
Q. How high do you tier up? I am using the Townsend way 
by putting an extracted comb on each side, and sections in the cen- 
ter, and on some hives I use shallow extracting-frames filled with 
comb. I find these were one-half to three-fourths filled with honey 
by June 16, and have put supers filled with sections under the 
partly-filled ones. 
A. In a very poor season there will be no tiering up. In a 
good season, after the season has fairly advanced, there will be 
