ONE YEAR AMONG THE BEES. 



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FIG. 11. Super for holding the sections. 



in cut. The section rest out of place and leaning against the center 

 one shows the extension of the tin strip on each side of the same. Tin is 

 also supplied at the ends of super for the same purpose. When sepa- 

 rators are used they may be dropped down between the sections, and 

 rest on the section rests. A following board is used, and the sections 

 are keyed up tightly in place in the usual manner. 



THE SECTION-HOLDER SUPER. 



This is a super largely used at present, and one that has many good 

 features. The illustration shows the six holders, five of them in posi- 

 tion in the crate, with the following board at the bottom and wedges 

 under the same, one holder out of place and lying on top of crate. 

 With this holder the sections are less liable to become soiled, as but 

 one side of section is exposed. These holders filled with sections are 

 held in the super by wedging up with the following board. This 

 wedging keeps them nicely in place when empty, but when they be- 

 come filled on the hives there is more or less shrinkage of the parts, 

 and when you pick up the whole super to move it the outside shell 

 usually comes, leaving the inside gearing on the hive. This can be 

 removed by sections. This is of course easily removed, and this point 

 is one of the good features of the section holder. Bees when storing 

 surplus honey will usually fill the sections directly above the brood 

 nest first, and thus the center sections are completed long before the 

 ones on the outside rows. With the section holder those inside can 

 be placed outside, and the empty sections are brought to the center, 



