142 PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY 
describe the many different plans of utilizing sections for the pur- 
pose of obtaining comb honey in the small size quantities that 
the market demands. There are still several kinds of supers in 
use that are being displaced by more practical ones. Formerly 
a large size frame holding two rows, or eight sections in all, 
which could be. placed in an ordinary hive body was quite gener- 
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ally used. They have almost gone out of use and the super that 
holds a single tier of sections has been almost universally adopted. 
These can be handled to better advantage and the space added 
only as the bees are prepared to occupy it. 
When the single tier super first came into use the sections 
were supported by strips of tin running across the under side. 
No provision was made for separating the sections, and as a 
result some would be very thick and some thin. Inasmuch as it 
