One-Piece Sections. 145 



make them neater and cheaper than we possibly can. 

 l)r. C. C. Miller, Mr. J. Heddon, and many others, 

 prefer sections made as are children's toy blocks, the 

 sides fastened by a sort of mortise and tennon arrange- 

 ment (Fig. 56.). 



Fig. 57. 



m 



One Pound Section. 

 Fig. 58. 



m=dl E^-y 



Prize Section. 



The Wheeler section — invented and patented by Mr. Geo. 

 T. Wheeler, Mexico, New York, in 1870 — is remarkable for 

 being the first (Fig. 64, K) to be used with tin separators 

 (Fig. 64, M ). Instead of making the bottoms narrower 

 for a passage, Mr. Wheeler made an opening in the bot- 

 tom. 



Another style of section, termed the one-piece-section 

 (Fig. 57), is, as its name implies, made of a single piece 

 of wood, with three cross cuts so that it can be easily bent 

 into a square. The fourth angle unites by notches and 

 projections, as before described (Fig. £6). These one- 

 piece sections are now, I think, the favorites among bee- 

 keepers. 



Heretofore there have been two prevailing sizes of sec- 

 tions in use in the United States ; the prize section (Fig. 

 58) which is five and one-fourth by six and one-fourth 

 inches, and the one pound section, (Fig. 57) which is four 

 and one-fourth inches square. The latter is coming rap- 

 idly to the front, as honey in it sells more readily than 

 if in a larger section. Even half pound sections have 

 taken the lead in the Boston and Chicago markets dur- 

 ing the past season. It is quite possible that these small 

 sections will rule generally in the markets of the future. 



