290 Arrangement of Sections. 
extracted honey. The sections should be on at the very 
dawn of each honey harvest, as white clover, basswood, 
etc. At first the full set of sections better not be added, 
but as soon as the bees commence to work well in them, 
then all should be added, on side and top, if side storing is 
practiced, and if we wish to tier up, the crate of sections 
first added should be raised and others added below. I like 
this practice of tiering up very much. As soon as the bees 
are -working well in all the sections I-raise the crate and 
place another underneath. This is continued often till 
there are three crates of sections on a single hive. As 
already stated it is best not to have the sections too closely 
shut in. Slight ventilation is desirable. 
If the queen troubles by entering the sections, use may 
be made of the perforated zinc (Fig. 64), or better still the 
queen-excluding honey board (Fig. 64), to keep her from 
them. As already suggested, we must arrange the form and 
size of sections as the market and our hives and apparatus 
make most desirable. We may vary the size and form of our 
sections so as to make them smaller and yet use the same 
crates or frames that we used with larger sections. Small 
sections are most ready of sale, and safest to ship; yet with 
their use, we may secure less honey. , 
If we can get nice straight combs by having them less 
thick without using separators in the sections, so that these 
latter can be readily placed side by side in shipping crates, 
then we, by all means, better omit the separators. If we 
use separators, we can use wood or tin. Wood is cheapest, 
and I find that in practice it serves even better than tin. 
GETTING BEES INTO SECTIONS, 
The crowded hive or brood chamber, with no intent to 
swarm, the wide spaces between sections, and a rich harvest 
of nectar, will usually send the bees into the sections with a 
rush. If they refuse to go, sections with comb, a little drone 
brood, or the exchange of sections temporarily from above 
to the brood-nest, or the moving of a brood frame up 
beside the sections for a short time, as before described, 
will frequently start the bees into the sections. Some apia- 
rists have their crates with sections so made that they can 
