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board are both turned upside down, the board being 

 firmly held on the super by one hand while reversing. 

 If the super should be reversed without this board being 

 held on it. there might be a possibility of sections 

 tumbling out and breaking. (The board is needed under 

 the reversed super in any case). The super is now ly- 

 ing upside down on the board, the board even with the 

 edge of the table. The side of the super having the fol- 

 lower is nearest, and I slide the super toward me enough 

 so that I can push the follower down and let it drop out. 

 I then push the super back on the board and lay the push- 

 board on the bottoms of the sections. Before putting 

 the push-board on the sections, however, I remove any 

 bits of wax that may be on the bottoms of the sections, 

 otherwise the push-board coming down hard upon them 

 will crush the comb enough to make the sealing on the 

 lower part of the sections look watery, if it does no 

 greater damage. 



As the super now lies, the sections are not resting 

 on the board beneath, there being J4 inch space there. 

 I push the push-board down till the sections rest on the 

 board below. 



EXCEPTIOXALLY TROUBLESOME CASES. 



The sections may fall that quarter of an inch with 

 their own weight, and they may not go down at all with- 

 out urgent coaxing. If the honey was stored with a 

 rush in the early part of the season, there will be very 

 little gluing, and the sections will come out easily. The 

 later in the season, and the slower the storing, the more 

 gluing, and the more trouble. If there is a lot of glue, 

 and if it is warm, stringy- and sticky, it must be humored 

 a little. It can hardly be jerked loose suddenly any 

 more than if it was nailed ; but if it is allowed time 

 enough the weight of the sections may be enough to 

 bring them down. Of course a little insistence will 

 hasten matters to some extent, but it seems to be a matter 



