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often too large for surplus and two half stories will always 

 be found more easily handled and more evenly filled, especially 

 if given only when needed. Many styles are made, but the 

 leading ones are with bottom and side slats enclosing the sec- 

 tions and with springs crowding them together, an improve- 

 ment on the Oliver Foster method described in a previous edi- 

 tion of this work, fig. 200. 



Fig. 201. 



IMTLLI^.R T Sl'l Kit. 



'740. Mr. C. C. Miller places his sections in supers without 

 top or bottom, three-eighths of an inch deeper than the sections. 

 To support the sections in these boxes he nails, under both ends, 

 a strip of tin, which projects one-fourth inch inside. Strips 

 of tin, bent in the form of a J. are supported across the 

 box, by six small pieces of sheet iron nailed at regular inter- 

 vals, under the sides of the box. The sections rest on these 

 T 's, and on the end strips. These supers holding 28 or 32 

 sections, can be piled upon one another, leaving a bee space 

 between them. The only objection that we have ever heard 

 offered to the T super, as the Miller super is called, is the 

 danger of the bees propolizing the exposed parts of the sec- 

 tion. In the supers which furnish slats for the support of the 

 sections, there is nothing exposed but the edges of a part of 

 each section. Otherwise the Miller plan seems to bring the 

 sections in closer proximity to each other. But the above men- 



