206 Wide Frames for Sections. 
they will be longest up and down. Mr. D. A. Jones finds 
that if so made, they are filled and capped much sooner. 
In the depth of the section, which fixes the thickness of 
the comb, a change from the common style seems to be 
desirable. Heretofore they have been generally made two 
inches deep. With such sections we must use separators 
to secure perfect combs. Dr. Miller uses separators, and 
prefers a depth of one and five-sevenths or two inches. 
By reducing the depth to from one and three-eighths to 
one and three-fourths inches, the expense of separators is 
found by some to be unnecessary. In feeding back to have 
sections completed, or where each section is removed as 
soon as capped, separators are indispensable. While I have 
never succeeded satisfactorily without separators—as the 
sections of comb would not be regular enough to ship well, 
yet I prefer the depth of my sections to be one and five- 
sevenths inches—or seven to the foot. I believe that the 
best section for to-day is one four and one-quarter inches 
square and one and seven-eighths inches in depth. We 
secure nicer comb for the table, with the thinner combs, 
and more bees are able to work on a crate or frame of 
sections, so that the foundation is more speedily drawn out. 
Of course any decided change in the form and size of our 
sections involves no small expense, as it requires that the 
crates or frames for holding the sections should also be 
changed. Often, however, by a little planning we can 
vary the form so as to reduce the size, without necessitating 
this expense. 
HOW TO PLACE SECTIONS IN POSITION. 
There are two methods, each of which is excellent and 
has, as it well may, earnest advocates—one by use of frames, 
the other by crates. 
SECTIONS IN FRAMES. 
_ . Frames for holding sections ie 78) are made the same 
size as the frames in the brood chamber. The depth of 
the frame, however, is the same as the depth of the sections. 
The bottom-bar is three-eighths of an inch narrower than 
