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THE BEEKEEPERS DIRECX.ORY. 



and is good for an indefinite service if painted once in three 

 years. 



Tiie extracting super used is identical in all respects with 



Fig. 4. I>r. linker's honey-board. 



the brood-chamber and may be storified, as also the section 

 super, to any extent desired. 



Section-cases. 



Section-cases or holders are among the new things in api- 

 culture. The styles are not in such great variety as in hives, 

 but in the course of a few years there will be as much confu- 

 sion in that line as there is in the countless styles of differ- 

 ent hives. 



We shall take the space here to describe but two kinds of 

 section holders. Tlie one here illustrated was devised by 

 Frank A. Eaton of Bluffton, Ohio. 



The accompanying cut, fig. 5, represents the case ; it has 

 the combined features of the single-tier broad-frames and the 

 open case, having a slatted bottom to correspond with the bot- 

 tom of the sections which protects the latter and keeps them 

 clean from brace-combs and coming off the hive as clean as 

 when first put on. It can be used in connection with a wood- 

 and-zinc honey-board if desired, as other cases are, or it can 

 be used to good advantage without, as the slatted bottom 

 keeps the sections clean. It can be made with the bee-space 



