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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15. 



will enter supers of plain sections as readily 

 as they will those of the extracting kind, and 

 then proceeds to overthrow the statement. 

 If Mr. H. will read the passage carefully he 

 will see that he read more into it than the lan- 

 guage warrants Perhaps I implied that su- 

 pers of plain sections and fences would be en- 

 tered more readily than supers of the old stvle. 



as that in the crate marked "plain sections." 

 As to their not getting prizes, we recently re- 

 ceived word from William Box well, of Eng- 

 land, who wrote us (referring to the exhibition 

 in Glasgow, in August) that "all the prizes 

 for sections of honey were won by the no-bee- 

 ways." 



Referring to the matter as to the facility in 



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FIG. 10. — HONEY IN OLD-STYLE SECTIONS. 



If so, there are not wanting reports to verify 

 the statement. 



He doesn't believe plain sections will bring 

 a higher price, because none of the honey 

 that was in such sections secured any prizes 

 at the Toronto, London, and Ottawa ex- 

 hibitions. In some markets they would 

 not bring any more money ; but in others 

 they do. Mr. Byron Walker, a man v^ho 

 has had, perhaps, as extensive an experi- 



scraping plain sections, with their plain 

 straight edges, this he considers their weakest 

 point. How he can so consider it I do not 

 see, because there are no irregular surfaces for 

 the knife to dip down into. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER ON PLAIN SEC- 

 TIONS. 



The editor of that journal, in his December 

 issue, has a very fair article on plain sections. 



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FIG. 11. — SOME OF DANZENBAKER'S 1898 FENCE HONEY. 



ence in marketing honey as anj^ other man 

 in the United States, says honey in plain 

 sections usually grades one notch higher than 

 honey in the old style. The Columbus Com- 

 mission and Storage Co , without knowing 

 any thing about them or the discussion that 

 has been going on about them, desired to se- 

 cure several thousand pounds of the same sort 



He is neither very strongly for nor much 

 against them. His position is summed up in 

 the following: 



We have, as yet, had no opportunity of testing the 

 advantages claimed by many for tlie plain section, 

 though we have .see>n enough of the product upon the 

 market to justify the conclusion that all plain sections 

 are not as well filled as tho.se which have come before 

 the attention of the Review; and j'et, no prettier 



