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can place one rack above another, and so have sections two, 

 and even three deep. 



Southard and Ranney, of Kalamazoo, use a very neat rack 

 (Pig. 51), in which they use the thin veneer sections which we 

 recommend as superior to all others for the general apiarist. 



Tig. 51. 



They have used these with excellent success, but without 

 separators, which they wish to insert. Perhaps by taking out 

 the board partitions (Fig. 51, jB, B), and putting tin separa- 

 tors the other way across, they would accomplish their object. 

 In this case, the ends of the adjacent sections would not be 

 separated, and the width of the rack would just accommodate 

 two, three, or four sections, to be governed by size of hive 

 and sections. The sheet-iron rests (Fig. 51, S, H, S) 



Fig. 52. 



which, with their bent edges, just raise the rack one-fourth 

 of an inch from the brood frames, would then run th^ other 



