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met, perhaps because I give her enough to do below — we can 

 place strips one-fourth of an inch square between the frames 

 and boxes. In case we work extensively for box honey, we 

 should have a rack or crate so made that we can remove all 

 the boxes at once ; in which case to examine the bees we 

 would not have to remove all the boyes separately. 



SURPLUS COMB-HONET IN SMALL FRAMES. 



Honey in boxes, unless they consist of sections as just de- 

 scribed, cannot compete with honey in small frames, in our 

 present markets, and without doubt they will fall more and 

 more into disfavor. In fact, there is no apparatus for securing 

 comb-honey that promises, so well as these sections. That 

 they are just the thing to enable ijs to tickle the market is 

 shown by their rapid growth in popular favor. Three years 

 ago I predicted, at one of our State Conventions, that they 

 would soon replace boxes, and was laughed at. Nearly all who 

 then laughed, now use these sections. They are cheap, and 

 with their use we can get more honey, and in a form that will 

 make it irresistable. 



REQUISITES OF GOOD SECTIONS 



The wood should be white, the size small, from four to six 

 inches square, the sections capable of being glassed, at least 

 on the faces, not too much cut off from brood-chamber, cheap, 

 easily made, and so arranged as to be put on or taken off the 

 hive en masse. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The style of section which I think will soon replace all others, 

 is easily made, as follows : For a section four inches square take 

 a strip of clean, white veneer — cut from bass-wood, poplar 

 or white-wood — such as is used to make berry-boxes, two 

 inches wide and twenty inches long ; for larger sections make 

 it proportionally longer. Make a shallow cut every four 



Fig. 44. 



1 ^ Four Inches. u \ 



inches at right-angles to the sides — though they will do this, 

 if asked to, at the factory. Now with a chisel (Fig. 44) four 

 inches long, with one-eighth inch projections at right-angles 



