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SECTION HONEY. 



But for movable frame hives (the onlv kind you will probably 

 have after your first year of bee-keeping), you should use the little 

 boxes that ai-e so common, each section box containing somewhere 



in the neighborhood of a pound of 

 honey. A look at the illustration 

 shows how^ neat one of these sec- 

 tions is in appearance, and being 

 of about the right size to put on 

 a dish on the table, there is lees 

 daubiness than when a piece is cut 

 from a larger comb. If you should 

 ever have more honev than enough 

 to supply your own table — a possi- 

 bility that may be worth consider- 

 ing — YOU will find that in these 

 '^-*',,.^ **- ^ ' sections it is in the most salable 

 ~^^ ^ ■ shape. A common size for a sec- 



A SECTION OF HONEY. tion-box is 4:^x4^ xl|, but Other 



(By pernnssion from ^Koofs A 13 C of Bee ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^f ^^^^ 



of greater height than width. Supers, or receptacles for holding the 

 sections, also vary. A full description of all the different hives, 

 supers, sections, etc., would go much beyond the limits of this Bul- 

 letin. 



SEPARATORS. 



In order to have a comb of honey built in the right place in a sec- 

 tion, it is necessary to have something to guide the bees, or they 

 may build the combs crosi^wise. Comb foundation is used for this 

 purpose, although a bit of nice, white honey-comb fastened in the 

 top of the section will answer. To keep the comb within the right 

 limits after it is started, partitions of wood or separators about one- 

 sixteenth of an inch in thickness are used. If the honey is to be 

 packed for shipping, most bee-keepers consider it absolutely essential 

 that the combs or sections be built between separators. Without 

 separators the combs will bulge into one another, one side being 

 thick and the other thin, and when these are packed together for ship- 

 ment, bruising and leaking will result. If the honey is intended en- 

 tirely for home use, you can do very well without separators. 



BAIT SECTIONS. 



Sometimes bees are a little slow about beginning work in sections, 

 preferring to crowd the honey into the brood-comb. If crowded suf- 

 ficiently in the brood nest, they will enter the supers, but this same 



