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between the blocks, the top and bottom bars will straighten out, and 

 in so doing, draw the tin as taut as a drum head. 



If a man can succeed, to his satisfaction, in producing comb 

 honey without separators, then I know of no more desirable super 

 than the old-style Heddon. This is a box, without top or bottom, 

 the size of the top of the hive, and a bee-space taller than the height 

 of the sections, having upright, wooden divisions, as wide as the sec- 

 tions are tall, put in crosswise of the case and at such a distance 

 apart that a row of sections will just nicely slip down between. 

 Flat against the lower edge of each division is nailed a strip of tin 

 1-4 inch wider than the partition is thick. The edges of the tin, pro- 

 jecting out yi of an inch, on each side, beyond the sides of the divis- 

 ion boards, afford a support for the sections. I have used hun- 

 dreds of these supers for years; in fact, produced nearly all of my 

 comb honey in them, and, if a man prefers the old style, bee-way 

 sections, and does not care to use separators, this super is simply 

 perfection. 



To sum up this chapter in a few words, my preference is for a 

 tall, plain, four-piece section of white poplar, used with fence 

 separators. 



