COMB HOXET. 



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bottom starters as per Fig. 198 give tJie best results, the bot- 

 tom starter being five-eighths of an inch wide, with a space 

 of onl}' a quarter inch between the two. This allows of the 

 slight stretching usual in comb foundation. 



737. It is held by some Apiarists that the fence with plain 

 sections, fig. 193, secures better filled combs than the ordinaiy 

 section with insets and separators, fig. 188. But when the bees 

 are supplied with foundation in full or nearly full sheets, the 

 advantage seems to be on the side of the separator. The 



Fig. 199. 



WIDP FKAME^ HALF FILLFD. 



(Forty Years Among: the Bees.) 



fullest sections that the writer has seen were secured by split- 

 ting the sections exactly through the center and placing the 

 sheet of foundation so that it was caught between the two 

 halves of the section and fastened all around. This is the 

 Lnglish method. 



Miss Emma Wilson, Doctor Miller's able sister-in-law, who 

 has for many years managed a large number of colonies for 

 comb honey says : 



