When my supers come in I put them on dollies in a garage attached to the 
extracting room. The bees will cluster on the garage door windows so I open 
the door and brush them out, most of the bees fly out when I lift the door. 
In 24 hours the bees are out of the boxes so I roll them into the extracting 
room. I just redid the extracting room last year, all white paint, and so 
far no bee poop.

I was taking off supers today to shorten hives in case we get hurricane 
Earl. Normally I use a bee blower but we just got fume boards and Bee Quick 
in the shop to sell so I took two with me to try and they worked good. By 
the time I got the supers off one the next in line was ready. I went down 
the line of hives faster with the two fume boards than I could have with the 
bee blower. Tomorrow I will be strapping them all. We have had such a hot 
dry summer I did not have to many towers to break down and allot of the 
supers I was taking off where empty. It is not going to be much of a honey 
year here (southern Maine), dry, hot, humid.

Karen Kimball 

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