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HONEY PRODUCTION. 



''I can pick just as well filled sections among those that 

 have insets as among the plain fence sections, and I can find 

 a.-s many ill-filled sections among the latter as among the 

 former. But I much prefer tlie sections with inset to the 

 plain, because when handling them, I am more likely to damage 

 the cai:)piugs of the honey in the plain sections, and the sec- 

 tions are also more likely to topple over while being fixed for 

 market." 



Mr. Frank Eauclifuss, the Secretary of the Colorado Honey 

 Producers, handlhig ten to twenty carloads of honey annually 

 for his stockholders, said : "In selling honev to our Eastern 



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Fig. 200. 

 SUPER WITH srniNGS. 



trade we found that they were not so willing to handle honey 

 in plain sections as in the standard sections." 



We will now consider a few of the various eases used in the 

 ]U'oduction of comb honey. 



738. The deep whjb frames (fig. 190), have the decided 

 advantage of allowing the Apiarist to use sections in a full 

 size up]ier story. In limited comb honey production, they can 

 probably be used with satisfaction, especially with the eight 

 or ten frame Langstroth hive. 



TSU. The half-stoiy comb honey supers, figs. 200 and 201, 

 are preferalde to the full stoiy wide frames. " A full stiu-y is 



