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Beekeeping 



Fig. 131. 



— Super for square plain sections 

 with section holders. 



passageway horizontally in the super. The super for 

 square bee-way sections with section holders (Fig. 130) 



is used perhaps more 

 generally than any other. 

 The sections are not pro- 

 tected at the top and the 

 communication between 

 sections is the same as in 

 the T-super. For plain 

 sections, the super cor- 

 responding to the one 

 just described is shown 

 in Fig. 131 and for tall sections (4 by 5 inches) the corre- 

 sponding type is repre- 

 sented in Fig. 132. In the 

 two last named, cleated 

 fences are used to provide 

 passage for the bees ver- 

 tically and there is little 

 opportunity for horizontal 

 passage. To provide pro- 

 tection for the top of the 



sections a wide frame is sometimes used, and in the illus- 

 tration (Fig. 133) this is shown in combination with 



shallow extracting combs 

 at the sides devised for the 

 purpose of inducing the 

 bees to begin work in the 

 supers quickly. The mod- 

 ern wide frame is a rever- 

 sion to the type formerly 

 much used, except that 

 the older types (often 

 for eight sections, Fig. 

 134) had a tin separator 

 one side of the frame and bee-way sections 



Fig. 132. — Super for tall plain sections. 



Fig. 133. — Super for tall (.i\ by 4|) 

 sections in wide frames. Shallow ex- 

 tracting frames are shown at the sides. 



tacked to 

 were used. 



