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A. A 'T" super is a plain box without top or bottom, one- 

 quarter inch deeper than the height of the sections it is to con- 

 tain. On the bottom, at each end, is a plain strip of tin to support 

 one end of the sections in the end rows, and at the proper places 

 staples are driven into the bottom and then bent so as to support 

 the "T" tins inside. On page 19 of "Forty Years Among the Bees'' 

 is a picture of a "T" super, which is reproduced here. I'm sorry 



Fig. 24.— a T-Super. 



to say it doesn't show as plainly as it might what a "T" super is. 

 The three "T" tins are shown loose, and you will see at the bot- 

 tom of the super the supports for them, which are here squares 

 of sheet-iron nailed on. The bent staples are later, and perhaps 

 a little better. 



It seems a very strange inconsistency that allows "T" tins to be 

 listed in a catalogue and not the "T" super, for without the "T" 

 super one will have no use for a "T" tin. For some reason, no 

 manufacturer pushes "T" supers, and yet there are not a few who 

 produce section-honey on a large scale who will have no others. 

 As for myself, I have tried about all the surplus arrangements 

 for section-honey that have been put on the market, some of 

 them on a pretty large scale, and as yet have found nothing else 

 to equal the "T" super. I have seen it condemned, but when I 

 learned how it was used, without taking advantage of its best 



