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began to have trouble from combs breaking down. It was due, 

 perhaps, mainly to the bees having too much surplus room. 

 Some sections would be filled with a nice comb of honey, not 

 \ery strongly attached at the top, very little at the side, and 

 not at all at the bottom. Aside from depending upon crowd- 

 ing the bees to make them fill the sections, I wanted a plan 

 whereby I could be sure of having the sections fastened at the 

 bottom as well as at the top. I tried to take partly filled 

 sections out of the supers and reversing them, and went so far 

 as to invent a reversible super. I abandoned this, however, 

 and adopted the plan of putting a starter in the bottom as well 

 as at the top of the section. '^ (''A Year Among the Bees.") 



Fig. 19S. 



TOP AND BOTTOM STARTERS. 



(Forty Years Among the Bees.) 



Between the publicatiuii of ^'A Year Among- the Bees," and 

 that of "Forty Years Anionj? the Bees," both by the same 

 author, Doctor C. C. Miller had seventeen years of practice 

 of comb honey production, on a very large scale and with 

 extraordinary results. The reader will readily agree with us 

 that his opinion has great value. He insists that top and 



