10 COMB HONEY. 
not crowding the frames together properly when closing the hive after ” 
having handled the frames. 
SECTIONAL HIVES. 
The sectional hive in which the brood chamber is composed of two. 
or more shallow hive bodies, making it horizontally divisible, offers 
some advantages, especially to the comb-honey specialist. Most of 
the ordinary manipulations can be performed readily with such hives 
without removing the frames. One of their greatest advantages in 
comb-honey production is the rapidity with which the apiarist can 
examine the colonies for queen cells if natural swarming is to be 
controlled by manipulation. They are also very elastic, the units or 
sections usually being of 5-L frame capacity, permitting a brood- 
chamber capacity of 5 or any multiple of 5-L frames. Among the 
disadvantages of these hives are the extra cost owing to the greater 
number of parts necessary in their construction and the difficulty 
in maintaining proper spacing without the use of top bars on the 
frames heavier than would seem advisable in the middle of the 
brood nest. 
Sections and Supers. 
There is a wide variation in the style of sections and the supers 
designed to contain them. This, while to some extent brought about 
by different local conditions, is largely due merely to the notions of 
individual beekeepers. Comb-honey apparatus could probably be 
standardized without sacrificing any really vital features. 
BEEWAY v. PLAIN SECTIONS. 
There are two general styles of sections in common use differing 
in the method of spacing—the beeway section in which the spacer is 
a part of the section itself (fig. 5), and the plain in which the spacer 
Fic. 3,—Beeway and plain sections, unfolded. (Original.) 
is a permanent part of the separator (fig. 4). Each style has its 
advocates and each offers some advantages. — 
' Some of the advantages of the plain (fig. 3) over the beeway sec- 
“tions are: (1) They are simpler in construction, therefore costing 
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