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Show I WORK FOR SECTION HONEY. i Money Can De Made by Handling It In This Form. 1 While honey cut out of largo frames is qulto toi)ulnr In noma regions, and sold under tho numo of bulk honey, and while larger quantities of comb honey can tliun bo produced than in any other wny, tho greater part of comb honey Is produced In small i boxes called sections, holding about ionu pound each, ns shown in cut. t Tho kind most in uso Is IV4xlV4xt $ inches, outside measure. My prefer-I prefer-I vnco, Bays Farm and Home, Is for tho T-super, ultbough it Is not most generally gen-erally In uso. The grade of comb honey foundn- tlon used In sections Is called thin if. super, although some uso extra thin V A Section of Honey, n super, and tho amount used varies all P tho wny from a triangular pleco mens-JG mens-JG tiring ono Inch on each sldo up to enough to fill tho section practically fl full. I consldor it economy to uso tho 1 larger amount, a bottom started five-H five-H eighths of an inch deep, and a top 5 starter coming down wltu.n ono-clghth H inch of this, tho starting coming withal with-al in about onc-slxteonth of an inch of B tho wood at each sldo. When tho sec-g sec-g tions aro thus filled with foundation B thcro is no need of an oxcludor to m koep tho queon out of tho super. j Ilccs do not so readily begin work ffi in section Bupers as In extracting su-Kr su-Kr pors with combs that have been pro-'A pro-'A viously used. In order to start work h more promptly, it Is advlsablo to uso I in tho first supor or tho season ono or I more bnlt sections. Thcso aro sections I that had been partly filled at tho close I of the previous season, and tho honoy 1 then emptied out by thu bees after tho I sections were taken from tho hives. A II ulnglo bait in tho nilddlo of a super U will answer, und in a poor season I I have had 100 or more of these baits I filled and scalod and not another sec- 1 tlon touched. B If only whon supors nro thus glvon, D tho bees would start to work In them, I and keop at work In them, what a 1 blessing! Hut alas, just about tho time 3 work Is fairly started in tho surplus I apartments, somo colony will take a notion to swarm, stopping all surplus R ' work, and If loft to its own devices t sends out n second swarm somo eight 3 daj-H after tho first, and then at Inter- vals of a day or two other swarms, fl sometimes flvn or six In all, tho last of them being mero handfuls, and only S a vexation. Other colonies will tako tho same notion, nnd tho Bcason will ! end with a large proportion of worth- less colonies and little or no surplus ' honoy, i Although It Is not an eusy thing to prevent each colony from swarming at least once, It Is well to know somo of the things that tend to provcut oxcos-slvo oxcos-slvo swurmlng. First of all comes abundunco of room, and hero extracted extract-ed honey has tho advantage. C. I. Umlaut, ono of the heaviest producors of extracted houoy In tho country, uses very largo hives, with no excluders, exclud-ers, and not morn than one colony In 20 swarms. Keeping down tho tomperaturo Is Important. Placo tho hives In Bliiulo where there Is a freo circulation of air, ns under slmdo trees. Also let thero bo plenty of ventilation of tho hlvo ltsolf by moans of largo en-1 en-1 trances, or by raising tho hlvo on I blocks. When working for oxtracted I honey, an opening of one-quarter In i! tho entlro width of the hlvo may bo I allowed to each story. |