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handle them exactly right, and somebody doesn't know about 

 handling it, the whole thing will fall out and smash your 

 sections ; and there may be others. 



Pres. York — Why do you use it, then? 



Dr. Miller — Because I don't know of anything else as 

 good ! 



Mr. Wilcox — I have studied that from Dr. Miller's writ- 

 ings. I have made and used a good many' of them, but I 

 couldn't make others use them just as he did. In making 

 mine I made the T support solid, fast to the super instead of 

 loose, so it couldn't fall out. It requires accuracy of measure- 

 ment, and accuracy in size of measurements, and to secure 

 them I made the super myself, and I always buy my sections 

 at the same factory where they are made at practically the 

 same guage, then I can slip them in and they fit, and they 

 always fit and remain. 



Mr. Abbott — There won't anybody buy it down in my 

 country. 



A Member — I had three or four hundred, and I changed 

 them over into the section-holders. I had a great many rea- 

 sons why I didn't like them. 



Pres. York — But you have forgotten all about the trouble. 



Mr. Niver — I think we have about 500 of them there at 

 home, and they are fine for kindling the fire under the steam. 



Mr. Abbott — I didn't know tin would burn. 



Pres. York — It does down in New York! It gets hot 

 down there ! 



Dr. Miller — I want to mention just one thing in regard 

 to Mr. Wilcox. If the T tins are fastened on (and there are 

 others who do that), then there is not the objection to falling 

 out. The only reason I like the support is because then I can 

 take the whole thing out at one time, T tins and all, and 

 there is a little advantage in that. One very serious objection 



to the T super is, a great many people don't know how to use 

 them! 



Pres. York — There is a book published on that subject! 



Dr. Miller — Many. 



HONEY CROP OF THE UNITED STATES FOR I903. 



"Is the general honey crop of the United States for 1903 

 above the average?" 



Mr. France — Possibly I haye had through the correspond- 

 ence of the members of the National an opportunity to learn 

 of that, and I will say it is below an average, take fhe United 

 States as a whole. 



Mr. Abbott— Right. 



CXOSED-END FRAMES. 



"What are the good points in a closed-end frame?" 

 Pres. York — How many use the closed-end frame, or have 

 used them? [Eight.] 



Mr. Wilcox — One good point is, the space would be prop- 

 erly spaced while the combs were being filled. After the 

 combs are filled I don't care for them any more. 



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