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through without difficulty. Sections worked in frames are seldom 

 so well finished or so white as those produced in crates; and so 

 it is only in districts w^here little honey is to be got, or in bad 

 seasons when it is difficult to get the bees to enter supers, that 

 it is advisable to use them. Some bee-keepers give the bees a 



rig. 24.— A, Section Crate ; b. Frame of Sections ; c, Queen-excluding Dummy. 



frame of sections just before the commencement of the honey 

 flow, and, so soon as they are being well worked out and filled 

 with honey, they place them in a crate to entice the bees up. 

 This is certainly a good plan, as the bees will enter a super 

 containing these sections w^hich they have commenced to fill 

 much more readily than one fitted entirely with empty sections. 



There is no need to place queen-excluding zinc under section 

 (rates, as it is found that queens very rarely enter or lay eggs 

 in them. 



The most popular style of crate or "rack" is that which 

 will hold twenty-one sections 2 inches wide — seven sections in 



