COMB HONEY. 



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COMB HONEY. 



Hand system, see Hives and also Swarm- 

 ing. 



dov'd super with section-holder. 



This is the form of super that has been, 

 perhaps, used more largely than any other. 

 It is a sort of compromise between the 



old-style wide frames and the T super. It 

 consists of a series of section-holders that 



are open at the top. Each holder is support- 

 ed at the end by a strip of tin nailed on the 

 inner edge of the ends of the super, as shown 

 in the accompanying illustration. 



Four sections in each section-holder are 

 held snugly and squarely in position with no 

 spaces between the rows of sections as in 

 the case of the T super. When beeway sec- 

 tions are used the bottom-bars of the sec- 

 tions are scored out to correspond with the 

 beeways. Between each row of sections is 

 dropped a wooden separator, as shown at D. 

 After they are all in place, a follower-board, 

 F, is shoved up against them, and the tight- 

 en ing-strip G, that is thicker one way than 

 the other, is slipped in the narrow way be- 

 tween the follower and the super side, and 

 given a quarter twist. This crowds the fol- 

 lower against the sections, causing compres- 

 sion. 



This case is very popular with farmers. 

 Four of them containing 24 sections with- 

 out separators are placed on the hive. 

 Wlien they are filled they are taken off with- 

 out removing the sections from the case, 

 and are put on the market just as they left 

 the hive. This is a sort of shiftless way, be- 



cause some sections will not be entirely fill- 

 ed ; but it suits the farmer who has no time 

 to do the sorting, scraping, and getting ready 

 for market ; and in some local markets this 

 case does very well. 



THE FENCE AND PLAIN- SECTION 

 SYSTEM. 



The sections and section - supers sho-noi 

 tieretofore have all been of the beeway type. 

 Brood-frames, when in hives, must be placed 



a bee-space apart ; so also must the sections. 

 Almost the first honey-boxes that were intro- 

 duced had the bee-space cut out of the top 

 and bottom of the sections themselves, so 

 tliat they could be placed directly in contact 

 with eacli other or the separator. This kind 

 of section continued almost up to the pres- 

 ent, but in 1897 there was introduced a sec- 

 tion without beeways, having plain straight 

 edges all around. This had been used some 

 ten or twelve years previously by various 

 bee-keepers who found them to be in every 

 way satisfactory. But plain sections (even 

 width all aroimd, without beeways) necessi- 

 tate some scheme for holding them a bee- 



space apart while on the hive. Accordingly, 

 a separator or fence was devised, having 

 transverse cleats at regular intervals on 

 both sides, binding the series of slats to- 

 gether — cleats so spaced as to come opposite 

 the uprights in the sections. This will be 

 shown more clearly in the annexed figure. It 



