COMB HOXEY. 



447 



bottom starters as per Fig. 198 give the best results, tlie bot- 

 toui starter being five-eigbths of an inch wide, with a space 

 of only a quarter ineb between the two. This allows of the 

 slight stretching usual in comb foundation. 



737. It is held by some Apiarists that the fence with plain 

 sections, flg. 193, secures better filled combs than the ordinary 

 section with insets and sejiarators, flg. 1S8. But when the bees 

 are supplied with foundation in full or nearly full sheets, the 

 advantage seems to be on the side of the separator. The 



Fig. 199. 



WIDK FRAME^ H4LF FII.LED. 



(Forty Years Among the Bees,) 



fullest sections that the writer has seen were secured by split- 

 ting the sections exactly through the center and placing the 

 sheet of foundation so that it was caught between the two 

 halves of the section and fastened all around. This is the 

 iiiuglish method. 



Miss Emma Wilson, Doctor Miller's able .sister-in-law, who 

 has for many years managed a large number of colonies for 

 comb honey says : 



