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pencil-mark of the super at each side, and about a fourth 

 of an inch distant from the marks made for the T tins. 

 The super-filler is now complete. 



It stands at a convenient height at the right-hand 

 side of the one who operates the Daisy fastener, with 

 the side-cler.t at the farther side (Fig. 87). A super is 

 placed on it with one corner of the super tight against 

 the angle made by the cleats ; but no T tin is yet put in the 

 super. As the sections come from the fastener they are 

 placed in the super at the end toward the back of the 

 operator. When the first row of six is completed, the T 

 tin is slipped under these sections into its proper place. 

 In like manner a second row of sections and a T tin ; then 

 a third row and a T tin, and lastly the fourth row. Then 

 without rising, the operator lifts this filled super to one 

 side and gets an empty one. 



PUTTIXG IX SEPARATORS. 



Generally these filled supers are not separatored till 

 the day's work of fastening foundation is done. Then a 

 small table is used at which the operator sits. This table 

 is made of three hive bottom-boards, or boards 21x14. 

 Stand two of the boards on end ; nail the other board on 

 top ; nail light boards on one side for a back, or brace 

 with two pieces of lath diagonally ; and there's your table 

 (Fig. 62). Being convenient for other purposes, sev- 

 eral of these little tables are on hand. The table is placed 

 near a pile of supers to be separatored, and the separators 

 are filled in. 



TOP SEPARATORS. 



As the sections now stand, there is som.e space be- 

 tween them endwise, allowirg them to be out of 

 square, and making a convenient place for the bees to 

 deposit a disagreeable quantity of propolis. To remedy 

 this, there is crowded in ?t the top between each two 

 rows of sections a little stick 11^ by ^4 by scant yg. 

 Then the follower is wedged in, and when all are done 



