208 Sections in Wide Frames. 
close together, and would not be so stuck together with 
propolis. These may be hung in the second story of a 
two-story hive, and just so many as-to fill the same—m 
hives will take nine—or they can be put below, beside the 
brood-combs. Mr. Doolittle, in case he hangs these below, 
inserts a perforated division board, so that the queen will 
not enter the sections and lay eggs. 
The perforated zinc division board (Fig. 65) would 
serve admirably for this purpose. A honey board (Fig. 
64) of the same material keeps sections, either in crates or 
Fic. 79. 
Galiup Frame with Sections. 
frames, that are above the hive, neat, and also keeps the 
queen from entering them. The workers enter just as 
freely. 
i eae hives, the “* New Idea”—which, though I would 
not use, nor advise any one else to use, I have found quite 
satisfactory, after several years’ trial, especially for extracted 
honey—I have used these frames of sections, and with 
good success. The Italians enter them at once, and fill 
them even more quickly than other bees fill the sections in 
the upper story. In fact, one great advantage of these sec- 
