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The perforated-zinc division-board (Fig. 92) would serve 

 admirably for this purpose. A honey-board (Fig. 91) of the 

 same material keeps sections, either in supers or frames, that 

 are above the hive, neat, and also keeps the queen from enter- 

 ing them. The workers enter just as freely. 



In long hives, the ''New Idea" — which, though I would 

 not use, nor advise any one else to use, I have found quite sat- 

 isfactory, after several years' trial, especially for extracted 

 honey — I have used these frames of sections, and with good 

 success. The Italians enter them at once, and fill them even 

 more quickly than other bees fill the sections in the upper 

 story. In fact, one great advantage of these sections in the 

 frames is the obvious and ample passageways, inviting the 



Fig. 111. 



Langstroth Frame with One-Pound Sections. — From A . I. Root Co. 



bees to enter them. But in our desire to make ample and invit- 

 ing openings, caution is required that we do not overdo the 

 matter, and invite the queen to injurious intrusion. So we 

 have Charybdis and Scylla, and must, by study, learn so to 

 steer between as to avoid both dangers. 



Mr. Jones finds that by using the division-board made of 

 perforated-zinc (Fig 92), the queen is kept from the sections, 

 and they can be safely placed in one end of the body of the 

 hive. 



Figure 111 shows a Langstroth frame full of one-pound 

 sections. As already stated, Mr. Heddon recommends the use 

 of one-story wide-frames, with separators, and so made as to 

 admit of inversion (Fig. 93). At first I used these deep frames 

 exclusively. The great objection to them is the daubing with 

 propolis, and diflSculty of removing the sections from the wide 



