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began to have trouble from combs breaking down. It was due, 

 perhaps, mainly to the bees having too much surplus room. 

 Some sections would be filled with a nice comb of honey, not 

 very strongly attached at the top, very little at the side, and 

 not at all at the bottom. Aside from depending upon crowd- 

 ing the bees to make them fill the sections, I wanted a plan 

 whereby I could be sure of having the sections fastened at the 

 bottom as well as at the top. I tried to take partly filled 

 sections out of the supers and reversing them, and went so far 

 as to invent a reversible super. I abandoned this, however, 

 and adopted the plan of putting a starter in the bottom as well 

 as at the top of the section." ("A Year Among the Bees.") 



Fig. 198. 



TOP AND BOTTOM STARTERS. 



(Forty Years Among the Bees.) 



Between the publication of "A Year Among the Bees," and 

 that of "Forty Years Among- the Bees," both by the same 

 author, Doctor C. C. Miller had seventeen years of practice 

 of comb honey production, on a very large scale and with 

 extraordinary results. The reader will readily agree with us 

 that his opinion has great value. He insists that top and 



