Comb Honey

by Geo. S. Demuth

L. O. Howard,
Entomologist and Chief of Bureau.

Hon. James Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture.

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CONTENTS.

	Page
Introduction	[5]
Apparatus for comb-honey production	[6]
Shop and honey house	[6]
Hives	[7]
Sectional hives	[10]
Sections and supers	[10]
Bee way v. plain sections	[10]
Dimensions of sections	[11]
Supers	[12]
The method of support	[12]
Protection	[13]
Free communication within the super	[14]
The use of separators	[15]
Shallow extracting supers	[16]
Combination supers	[16]
Other apparatus	[16]
Preparing supers	[17]
Folding sections	[17]
Fastening foundation in sections	[17]
Manipulation of the bees	[18]
Securing workers for the honey flow	[20]
Building up the colony in the early spring	[21]
The production of gathering bees	[22]
Providing sufficient stores	[23]
Providing available brood-rearing space	[23]
Summary	[24]
Using available workers to best advantage during the honey flow	[25]
Swarming	[26]
Preventive measures	[26]
Control measures	[27]
Control of natural swarms	[28]
Using the removed brood to best advantage	[29]
What to use in the brood chamber when hiving swarms	[32]
Extreme contraction of the brood chamber when hiving swarms	[33]
Swarm control by manipulation	[34]
Taking the queen from the hive	[35]
Removing the brood from the hive	[37]
Separating the queen and brood within the hive	[40]
Manipulation of the supers	[41]
Caring for the crop	[44]
Removing the honey from the hives	[44]
Care of comb honey	[45]
Scraping propolis from sections	[45]
Grading comb honey	[46]
Packages for comb honey	[46]
Marketing	[47]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Fig.	1.	A 10-frame hive with comb-honey super and perforated zinc queen excluder	[8]
	2.	Perforated zinc queen excluder	[9]
	3.	Beeway and plain sections, unfolded	[10]
	4.	Plain section in super, showing method of spacing	[11]
	5.	Beeway section in super, showing method of spacing	[11]
	6.	Square and oblong sections	[12]
	7.	The T super	[13]
	8.	Super with section holder for beeway sections	[13]
	9.	Super with section holder for square plain section	[14]
	10.	Super with section holder for oblong plain sections	[14]
	11.	Combination super with wide frames for oblong plain sections	[15]
	12.	Bee-escape board for removing bees from supers	[17]
	13.	Drone and queen trap on hive entrance	[28]
	14.	Colony before swarming; supers in place	[29]
	15.	Brood placed in hive turned 00 degrees from old entrance	[29]
	16.	Hive with brood turned back to 45 degrees from old entrance	[30]
	17.	Hive with brood turned parallel to old entrance	[30]
	18.	Hive with brood placed on other side of old entrance	[31]
	19.	Arrangement of supers	[42]
	20.	Shipping cases for comb honey	[47]