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Sections in Wide Frames. 



close together, and would not be so stuck together with 

 propolis. These may be hung in the second story of a 

 two-story hive, and just so many as to fill the same — nay 

 hives will take nine — or they can be put below, beside the 

 brood-combs. Mr. Doolittle, in case he hangs these below, 

 inserts a perforated division board, so that the queen will 

 not enter the sections and lay eggs. 



The perforated zinc division board (Fig. 65) would 

 serve admirably for this purpose. A honey board (Fig. 

 64) of the same material keeps sections, either in crates or 



Fig. 79. 



Gallup Frame -with Sections, 



frames, that are above the hive, neat, and also keeps the 

 queen from entering them. The workers enter just as 

 freely. 



In long hives, the "New Idea" — which, though I would 

 not use, nor advise any one else to use, I ha\ e found quite 

 satisfactory, after several years' trial, especially for extracted 

 honey — I have used these frames of sections, and with 

 good success. The Italians enter them at once, and fill 

 them even more quickly than other bees fill the sections in 

 the upper story. In fact, one great advantage of these sec- 



