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Then there is what is known as the division board, 

 merely a thin board which can be shoved around in the in- 

 side to give more or less frames. You can use any number 

 of frames by shoving the division board around, and the 

 hive then serves as an 8-frame, 7-frame, 6-frame or what- 

 ever you wish. The division board is not very well liked, 

 by the large beekeeper. 



(Doctor Gates here gave a practical illustration of the 

 correct and the wrong ways in which to reverse the frames 

 when wishing to examine the other side or end). 



One thing I would like to impress upon you, and have 

 you impress upon your friends, and that is that there is no 

 such thing as an artificial comb. There has been a prize of 

 $1000 offered for a good many years for the production of 

 a pound of artificial-comb honey, and that prize has not yet 

 been claimed, and probably won't be. There is, however, 

 a story current that there has been artificial comb produced, 

 which without doubt originated from the foundation which 

 is Mr. Manufacturer's foundation. It is pure beeswax run 

 between rollers, impressed with the six-sided cell, which is 

 truly a foimdation and is not in any sense of the word a 

 comb, but merely a basis or septum on which comb is built, 

 and all the bees do is to draw it out on one side and the 

 other and build the comb on this support. It is used by 

 beekeepers to support and strengthen the comb and secure 

 regularity, as he wants his cells all uniform and regular. 



Here is what is known as a full sheet of foundation. 

 The wires are used to further strengthen the comb and 

 make it rigid when the bees have drawn it out. 



The bee hive usually contains 10 frames. There are 

 varieties using 8 and 12 frames, and even 13 frames, but the 

 10-frame hive is standard. 



This Avhich goes above the brood chamber, is called the 

 "super". 



Since there is an inherent tendency to store honey 

 above the brood chamber, beekeepers take advantage of 

 that and secure honey in the super. It is merely a frame in 

 which there are these boxes which, as I have said, hold ap- 

 proximately a pound. 



Then there is the section box. Where they secured the 

 name I don't know, except that they are a section of the 



