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allow a quarter-inch space for ventilation at the back rnd. When 

 I don't want that ventilation I tack on the super at the back end 

 a strip as long as the width of the hive, or the super, and about 

 seven-eighths by one-half. That makes the super long enough so 

 it covers entirely the opening at the top of the hive. The super 

 being made just as wide as the hive, of course it will be wider 

 for a 10-frame hive than for an 8-frame hive. 



Q. Do you use springs with the "T" super? If so, how many, 

 what kind, and how? 



A. I use a single spring in each super, crowded in between the 

 follower and the side of the super. It is the common super- 

 spring sold by supply dealers, in shape something like the elliptic 

 of a buggy. 



Q. I think you spoke of driving the bent staples in level with 

 the wood. If I understand it rightly, the T-tins are supported just 

 the thickness of the staples above the bottom of the super. Am I 

 right? 



A. The idea is to get the bottoms of the sections as nearly as 

 possible on a level with the bottom of the super, but in actual 

 practice that will vary, for in bending over and driving down the 

 staple it will be sometimes embedded in the wood. 



Q. Are the thin strips of wood better than an extra set of 

 tins at top of the sections? I was under the impression that the 

 tins were better. 



A. The wood strips leave propolis only at the corners of the 

 sections, while "T" tins on top would invite lines of propolis at 

 some distance from the corners. The wood is probably easier to 

 put in place, and it holds the sections square, while a "T" tin on 

 top would allow a little variation. Yet these differences do not 

 amount to so very much. 



Super, Turned Over. — Q. Why wouldn't it be a good plan to 

 have the super so that you could turn it over? Wouldn't we get 

 better filled sections? 



A. Supers have been ma'de to use in that way, but have never 

 come into general use; perhaps because the advantage did not pay 

 for the extra trouble. 



Supersedure. — Q. Is there any way to tell a supersedure 

 queen-cell from a swarming cell, during the swarming season? 



A. There is no difference between a supersedure-cell and a 

 swarraing-cell, either in appearance or any other way. It may 



