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PUTTING STARTERS IN SECTIONS. 



The Daisy foundation-fastener is so well-known that 

 I need say nothing about the use of the machine itself. 

 As the operator sits at the machine with a small pile of 

 starters in the lap, a boardful of sections is at the left 

 hand at a convenient height, the side of the board toward 

 the operator (Fig. ST). The bottom-starter is put in 

 first, then the top-starter. When the section has its two 

 starters, it is put directly into the super. With a starter 

 as deep as 3j4 inches it would hardly do to throw the sec- 

 tion in a basket. Formerly the sections when filled were 

 placed in order on a board the same as the board from 

 which they were taken, and it was a separate job after- 

 ward to fill them in the super. 



PUTTING SECTIONS IN SUPERS. 



By means of an implement of my own devising, 

 which for want of a better name may be called a "super- 

 filler" (Fig. 63), the separate job of filling sections in 

 supers is now. entirely dispensed with, and the sections 

 go directly from the Daisy fastener into the super, taking 

 no more time to be put into the super than it w^ould take 

 to put them on a board. Indeed, I think it takes a lit- 

 tle less time, for there is not the same need of care in 

 placing the sections so other sections will not be knocked 

 ofT the board, but the sections are shoved into place in 

 the super in a sort of automatic way. Then, too, it is a 

 comfort to get them directly into the super, for while on 

 a board, even for a short time, there is always danger 

 of some mishap by which a boardful may tumble over 

 and come to grief. 



SUPER-FILLER. 



ril tell you how to make a super-filler. Take a board 

 as large as the outside dimensions of your super or 

 larger. (The one in the picture is a board hive-cover.) 

 Xail a cleat on one end of the board, and another cleat on 



