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COMB HONEY, TO PRODUCE 
The work well started in the extracting-combs at the side of the comb-honev super. Note that the row of 
sections just back of the extracting-frame is well along and that the second row back is started. 
well as the section lioney-boxes. The for¬ 
mer can be extracted and used again. 
It will be seen that the extracting-combs 
serve the purpose of excellent baits. Mr. 
Townsend draws attention to the fact that, 
when such baits are placed at the sides. 
instead of in the center, they cause an even 
filling of the entire super; whereas by the 
old plan of putting bait combs in the mid¬ 
dle of the super the storing begins around 
the baits, gradually working from the cen¬ 
ter to the outside. This naturally brings 
about a better filling of the center sections, 
leaving those toward the sides at a much 
later stage of comb-building and filling. 
The result of this is that the center sections 
will be filled in advance of the outside 
ones; and by the time these latter are 
filled, all the former will be travel-stained, 
and may induce swarming in the mean 
time. 
When Mr. Townsend first began this 
scheme of comb and extracted honey pro¬ 
duction from the same super he had in 
mind only baiting the bees up into the sec¬ 
tions; but he incidentally discovered that, 
inasmuch as the bees would enter such 
supers without hesitation, he thereby almost 
entirely ..overcame swarming, 
It is well known, that after bees are 
once started going above, there is less in¬ 
clination on their part to swarm. Mr. 
Townsend finds that the two side extract- 
ing-combs that he puts in every comb-super 
Ono of Jay Smith’s hives, showing extracting-combs 
at the side of the super, a la Townsend. 
start the bees into the super about as read¬ 
ily as they would if containing extracting- 
combs only. The whole effect of this pro¬ 
cedure is such that swarming is reduced to 
a minimum — almost brought under control. 
