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part of the work, and in a short time the specialist far exceeds 

 the instructor. Miss Wilson can put in, I think, five starters 

 to my one; my son Charlie, when a little chap, could distance 

 me in putting together sections ; and I think Philo can beat me 

 at taking sections out of supers. 



PUTTING STARTERS IN SECTIONS. 



The Daisy foundation-fastener is so well known that I need 

 say nothing about the use of the machine itself. As the opera- 

 tor sits at the machine with a small pile of starters in the lap, 

 a boardful of sections is at the left hand at a convenient height, 

 the side of the board toward the operator (Fig. 87). The bot- 

 tom-starter is put in first, then the top-starter. When the sec- 

 tion has its two starters, it is put directly into the super. With 

 a starter as deep as 3^ inches it would hardly do to throw the 

 sections in a basket. Formerly the sections when filled were 

 placed in order on a board the same as the board from which 

 they were taken, and it was a separate job afterward to fill them 

 in the super. 



PUTTING SECTIONS IN SUPERS. 



By means of an implement of my own devising, which for 

 wii'it of a belter name may be called a " super-filler " (Fig. 63), 

 the separate job of filling sections in supers is now entirely 

 dispensed with, and the sections go directly from the Daisy 

 fastener into the super, taking no more time to be put into the 

 super than it would take to put them on a board. Indeed, 1 

 think it takes a little less time, for there is not the same need of 

 care in placing the sections so other sections will not be knocked 

 off the board, but the sections are shoved into place in the super 

 in a sort of automatic way. Then, too, it is a comfort to get 

 them directly into the super, for while on a board, even for a 

 short time, there is always danger of some mishap by which a 

 boardful may tumble over and come to gTief. 



SUPBE-PILLEE. 



I'll tell you how to make a super-filler. Take a board as 

 large as the outside dimensions of your super or larger. (The 



