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When the supers of sections are taken in, they are piled up 

 near the center of the room with no very great precision, usually 

 being piled crosswise, that is, each super placed across the one 

 under it, for the double purpose of ventilation and to make it 

 easier to lift the supers off the pile than they would be if piled 

 straight and stuck together with bee-glue. 



Fig. 6S — Pile of SI ones. 



PUSH-BOARIl. 



Perhaps the sections will be taken out of the supers the 

 next day, possibly not for a week or more. A push-board (Fig. 

 76) is used to push the sections out of the super. This is made 

 as follows : 



