, however, should not be
extracted but saved for the feeding of light colonies in the fall and
spring.

The easier way to produce extracted honey is to have enough supers, say
three or four for each colony. The first is added during the dandelion
or fruit blossom flow as soon as the colony is strong enough to readily
enter into it. When this super is nearly full and the combs can be seen
through the top bars to whiten, another super is added next to the brood
chamber, and the partly filled super is raised. When this second super
begins to get well filled, a third and a fourth super is added on top.
In the latitude of Minneapolis it is not advisable to insert a super
next to brood chambers after July 4th, or two weeks before the end of
the honey flow, because such procedure would result in a large amount of
uncapped honey.

Comb honey should not be produced where the honey flow is slow and
intermittent. Weak colonies will not produce comb honey profitably. In
making up supers only A 1 sections should be used, with full sheets of
extra thin foundation and three-eighths inch bottom starters of thin
foundation. Care should be taken to fasten the foundation very solidly,
else heat and weight of bees will cause it to drop. One or more bait
sections should be used in the first comb honey super to induce the bees
to enter into it more readily. Bait sections are the half finished,
unmarketable sections of the previous season. One to four are used near
the center of each super.

(To be continued in June No.)

[Illustration: THE HOME OF THE LADY SLIPPER--MOCCASIN FLOWER.

THE MINNESOTA STATE FLOWER.]

While it is not the intention to publish anything in this
magazine that is misleading or unreliable, yet it must be
remembered that the articles published herein recite the
experience and opinions of their writers, and this fact must
always be noted in estimating their practical value.

THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST

Vol. 44 JUNE, 1916 No. 6

The State Flower and State Flag of Minnesota.

E. A. SMITH, VICE PRES. JEWELL NURS. CO., LAKE CITY.

The material in this paper has been gathered from several sources, part
of which has never before been published. It is presented not so much in
the spirit of criticism as it is in the spirit of making the best of a
mistake which the writer believes occurred when the moccasin flower was
designated as the state flower of Minnesota.

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