216 Starting Sections. 



and is sure to be in demand, even though the price is less. 

 The quantity may more than compensate for lower price. 



ADJUSTMENT OF SECTIONS. 



As before suggested, a wide space between bottom bars of 

 sections — three-eighths inch — is desirable. The sections should 

 be on at the very dawn of each honey harvest, as white clover, 

 bass-wood, 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. 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. 60) 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 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 as well as 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, a little drone brood, or the exchange of 

 sections temporarily from above to the brood-nest, or the mov- 

 ing of a brood-frame up beside the sections for a short time, as 

 before described, will frequently start the bees into the sections. 

 Some apiarists have their crates with sections so made that they 

 can be placed between the brood frames till the bees commence 

 to work in the sections ; others accomplish the same end by in- 



