14 COMB HONEY. 
Free Communication Within the Super. 
The use of closed-top sections (1-beeway) and solid separators, 
making each section ‘a separate compartment with openings for the 
bees at the bottom only, illustrates one extreme; while the sections 
with openings on all four sides (4-beeway) used without separators 
Fic. 9.—Super with section holder for square plain sections. ( Original.) 
illustrate the other extreme as to free communication; and between 
these extremes are various intermediate types. ' 
It would be desirable so to adjust the sections that when filled — 
with honey a row of them would, so far as the bees are concerned, 
¥ia, 10.—Super with section holder for oblong plain sections. (Original.) 
be equivalent to a single comb, that the bees might have the same 
free access to the outside row of cells from all sides as they do the 
other cells and might pass up or down from any section and the 
full length of the row, as well as around the ends. While, under the 
same conditions, such free access to the outside row of cells from all 
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