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On each hive a super is placed (fig. 11) holding 24 to 48 sections, 
each section supplied with a strip or a full sheet of very thin founda- 
tion. 
It is best not to give too much space at once, as considerable 
warmth is necessary to enable the bees to draw out foundation or to 


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Fig. 11.—Langstroth hive—super above holding 28 sections 
for comb honey. 
build comb. A single set 
of sections is usually suffi- 
cient at a time. When the 
honey is designed for home 
use or for a local market, 
half-depth frames are some- 
times used, the same as 
those often used above the 
brood nests when colonies 
arerun for extracted honey, 
but for the general market 
pound sections (fig. 12) are 
better adapted. 
It is the practice of many 
- to have nice white comb 
partially drawn out before 
the main honey flow begins, 
or even the season before, 
feeding the colonies, if nec- 
essary, to secure this; and, 
when the honey yield be- 
gins, to supply sets of sections with these combs having cells deep 
enough for the bees to begin storing in as soon as any honey is col- 
lected. Earlier work in the sections is thus secured, and this, as is well 
known, is an important point in the prevention of swarming. Mr. 
Samuel Simmins, of England, has long contended 
for this use of partially drawn combs, and though 
it forms a feature of his system for the preven- 
tion of swarming it has been too often over- 
looked. Comb foundation is now manufactured 
with extra thin septum or base and with the 
beginnings of the cells marked out by somewhat 
thicker walls which the bees immediately thin 
down, using the extra wax in deepening the cells. 
This is not artificial comb, but a thin sheet of 
wax having the bases of the cells outlined on 
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Fic. 12.—Comb honey stored 
in pound section—size 4} 
by 43 inches. 
it. Complete artificial combs have never been used in a commercial 
way, although there exists a widespread belief to this effect, which is 
founded on extravagant claims that have appeared from time to time 
in newspaper articles. 
If the brood apartment has been much contracted when the supers 
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