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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



dation at the time and is ready for a fresh boardful of 

 sections. 



SIZE OF STARTERS IX SECTIONS. 



Foundation for sections comes from the factory in 

 sheets large enough to fill several sections. At different 

 times the sheets have been of different sizes, but for some 

 time past they have measured 3J^ x 15^. This size is 



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just right to make four top-starters354 inches deep, and 

 four bottom starters ^ inch deep. Occasionally a bot- 

 tom-starter of this depth makes trouble by lopping over, 

 but not often, and a shallower starter is more likely to be 

 gnawed down by the bees. Moreover, I think the deeper 

 the bottom-starter the more promptly the two starters 

 are fastened together. 



With two starters of this size in a 4J4 section, there 

 should be a space of % inch between the two if it were 

 not that the space is made larger by the melting away of 

 the edges of the starters when thev are put in the section 

 (Fig. 60). 



