182 A Modern Bee-Farm 
sufficient ower below, neither does it properly economise 
power for the rapid and perfect production of section honey 
above it, as does a narrow but more populous cluster 
among our eight large frames, which arrangement provides. 
for the more economic distribution and conservation of 
heat. 
The principle of a marrow deep cluster must be continued 
throughout the whole tier of sections as well, and hence 
each crate of sections contains only three rows of seven 
sections. I have tried varying numbers upon different 
surfaces and find it a serious error to attempt to crowd 
many sections upon an extended surface. On one occasion 
I supered a small stock with crates of sixteen sections only 
in each set. These were completed rapidly in the most 
perfect manner, and five sets were more quickly completed 
than three supers of 21 each in other hives. Our American 
friends spread too many sections in each crate, more 
especially in the non-protected hives so generally used. 
The section crates are double walled all round, and 
packed between, giving the most complete protection for 
the rapid perfecting of the combs of honey. The roof is 
made in the same manner as that illustrated for the 
Economic. 
SUPER CRATES 
to hold from 18 to 21 sections, can be made as follows: 
Put together a plain box of the size desired with neither 
top nor bottom, and wide enough to take three 44-inch 
sections across besides the thickness of rails supporting 
them. Such rails are in the form of an inverted T; the 
sections resting upon the ledges which must not be mare 
than }-inch thick, giving that space between the sections 
and top bars of the frames. Any space left at the one 
end of the sections must be closed by a piece of wood to 
