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Super containing two cxtracting-frames with wide end-bars, so that they take up the same amount of room 
as a section-holder. 
I raised the combs by putting a super of 
sections between them and the brood-nest. 
At the end of two weeks from putting on 
the combs those sections under the combs 
were better filled than those on the hives 
that had no .combs. As soon as the combs 
were sealed, I put them away to extract, 
having that amount of honfey extra, and the 
bees started nicely in their work. I had 
only about a third as many swarms from 
those hives as from the ones with sections 
and no combs. 
I liked the plan so well that last, year I 
had enough of those little combs built to 
furnish a super of them to every colony that 
was to be run for section honey. 
I tried the plan again this year, and from 
75 colonies at the out-apiary I had 8000 fine 
white marketable sections, about 50.0 lbs. of 
unfinished and imperfect sections, 1500 lbs. 
of extracted honey, and 60 lbs. of beeswax, 
and two barrels of vinegar. 
Mancos, Colo. Mrs. A. J. Barber. 
Other correspondents to Gleanings- in Bee 
Culture have reported good results from 
following the same methods. It. is partic¬ 
ularly applicable where both comb and ex¬ 
tracted are called for. 
E. D. Townsend of Northstar, Mich., the 
other correspondent, goes one step further 
than the Barber plan by producing comb 
and extracted honey in the name super. 
Instead of putting on a case of extracting- 
combs, and afterward substituting therefor 
one containing sections, he has a special 
super which contains hath extracting- 
■ combs and sections. 
The illustration shows a comb-honey 
super containing 4x5 sections. This is 
equipped precisely the same as any other 
super for sections except that it has ex- 
traeting-combs with closed-end frames on 
each outside. When it is placed on a hive 
the bees immediately occupy the drawn 
comb at the sides of the super and begin 
their storing. The combs already drawn 
out are very inviting places in which the 
bees can begin storing honey. Having 
made a nice start in the two side extracting- 
combs they work toward the center — that 
is to say, they begin to draw out the full 
sheets of foundation in 4 x 5 sections next 
to the combs, and store in them. When 
work is once in full progress in the side 
sections of the super, the center ones will 
take care of themselves with the result 
that every section is finished about the 
same time, and of about equal fullness. 
When the super is completed, the two ex- 
tracting-combs will be filled and capped as 
