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FIFTY YEARS AAJOXG THE BEES 



"per colony" part of the business. It would be interest- 

 ing to learn how much the difference in the yield per 

 colony was due to the season, and how much to the in- 

 creased number, but that is one of the things past find- 

 ing out. 



HEDDON SUPER. 



In the year 1883 I tried the Heddon super (Fig. 4) 

 to the number of two hundre<l. The Heddon super is 



Fig. II — Hive-Staples. 



much in form like a T super, but it is divided lengthwise 

 into four compartments. This prevents, of course, the 

 possibility of having separators running the length of the 

 super, so no separators are used. James Heddon and 

 others had reported success in obtaining sections that 

 were straight enough for satisfactory packing in a ship- 

 ping-case, but with me too many sections were bulged, 

 their neighbors being correspondingly hollowed out. I 

 did not continue the use of this super very long. 



