2o6 Wide Frames fo7- Sections. 



they will be longest up and down. Mr. D. A. Jones finds 

 that if so made, they are filled and capped much sooner. 

 In the depth of the section, which fixes the thickness of 

 the comb, a change from the common style seems to be 

 desirable. Heretofore they have been generally made two 

 inches deep. With such sections we must use separators 

 to secure perfect combs. Dr. Miller uses separators, and 

 prefers a depth of one and five-sevenths or two inches. 

 By reducing the depth to from one and three-eighths to 

 one and three-fourths inches, the expense of separators is 

 found by some to be unnecessary. In feeding back to have 

 sections completed, or where each section is removed as 

 soon as capped, separators are indispensable. While I have 

 never succeeded satisfactorily without separators— as the 

 sections of comb would not be regular enough to ship well, 

 yet I prefer the depth of my sections to be one and five- 

 sevenths inches — or seven to the foot. I believe that the 

 best section for to-day is one four and one-quarter inches 

 square and one and seven-eighths inches in depth. We 

 secure nicer comb for the table, with the thinner combs, 

 and more bees are able to work on a crate or frame of 

 sections, so that the foundation is more speedily drawn out. 

 Of course any decided change in the form and size of our 

 sections involves no small expense, as it requires that the 

 crates or frames for holding the sections should also be 

 changed. Often, however, by a little planning we can 

 vary the form so as to reduce the size, without necessitating 

 this expense. 



HOW TO PLACE SECTIONS IN POSITION. 



There are two methods, each of which is excellent and 

 has, as it well may, earnest advocates — one by use of frames, 

 the other by crates, 



SECTIONS IN FRAMES. 



Frames for holding sections (Fig. 78) are made the same 

 size as the frames in the brood chamber. The depth of 

 the frame, hovvever, is the same as the depth of the sections. 

 The bottom-bar is three-eighths of an inch narrower than 



