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tions marketed fall somewhat short of the full 

 weight. A comb-honey super for a ten-frame 

 hive holds twenty-eight of these one-pound sec- 

 tions. In the figure there is a section holder 



Fig. 9. — Hive for producing extracted honey. 



with four sections laying across the top. There 

 is also a separator lying beside it. The sep- 

 arator is a thin sheet of wood which is placed 

 between the rows of sections to prevent the bees 

 from building the combs too thick or uneven. 

 By placing thin sheets of starter, or foundation 

 in these sections as described elsewhere, the bees 



