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They would often sell more readily, and are far better to ship, 

 as the combs would seldom ever break from the sections. 

 If, in arranging our sections, we desire to have them oblong, 

 we better make them so that they will be longest up and down. 

 Mr. D. A. Jones finds that f so made, they are filled and 

 capped much sooner. In the depth of the section, which fixes 

 the thickness of the comb, a change from the common style 

 seems to be desirable. Heretofore they have been generally 

 made two inches deep. With such sections we must use 

 separator', to secure perfect combs. By reducing the depth 

 to from one and three-eighth to one and three-fourth inches, 

 the expense of separators is said to be unnecessary. We 

 secure nicer comb for the table, and more bees are able to 

 work on a crate or frame of sections, so that the foundation 

 is more speedily drawn out. Of course any decided change 

 in the form and size of our sections involves no small ex- 

 pense, as it requires that the crates or frames for holding the 

 sections should also be changed. Often, however, by a little 

 planning we can vary the form so as to reduce rhe size, v^ith- 

 out necessitating this expense. 



HOW TO PLACE SECTIONS IN POSITION. 



There are two methods, each of which is excellent and has, 

 as it well may, earnest advocates — one. by use of frames, the 

 other by crates. 



SECTIONS IN FRAMES. 



j^'rames for holding sections (Fig. 59) are made the same 

 size as the frames in the brood chamber. The depth of the 

 frame, however, is the same as the depth of the sections. The 

 bottom bar is three-eighths of an inch narrower than the remain- 

 der of the frame, so that when two frames are side oy side, there 

 is three-eighths of an inch space between the bottom bars, though 

 the top and side pieces are close together. The sections are of 

 such a size (Fig. 61, K) that four, or six, or nine, etc., will 

 just fill one of the large frames. Nailed to one side of each 

 large frame are two tin, or thin wooden strips (Fig. 61, t, t) in 

 case separators are to be used, as long as the frame, and as w'de 

 into one inch as are the sections. These are tacked half an inch 

 from the top and the bottom of the large frames, and so are 

 opposite the sections, thus permitting the bees to pass readily 



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