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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 

 as many ill-filled sections among the latter as among the 

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

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

 the cappings 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 Rauchfuss, the Secretary of the Colorado Honey 

 Producers, handling ten to twenty carloads of honey annually 

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



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Fig. 200. 



SXIPEB WITH SPRINGS. 



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 cases used in the 

 production of comb honey. 



738. The deep wide frames (fig. 199), have the decided 

 advantage of allowing the Apiarist to use sections in a full 

 size upper story. In limited comb honey production, they can 

 probably be used with satisfaction, especially with the eight 

 or ten frame Langstrot^ hive. 



YSO. The half -story comb honey supers, figs. 200 and 201, 

 are preferable to the full story wide frames. A full story is 



