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MANUAL OP THE APIARY. 



tomers will object to buying wood and glass, if our unglassed 

 sections of comb-honey are kept in close glassed crates. 



The Hetherington brothers make a very neat section, as 

 follows : The top and bottom are each two inches wide, of 

 one-quarter inch white pine. These receive a groove one- 

 eighth inch from the ends, which receives the sides, one inch 

 wide and one-eighth inch thick, which is pressed through to 

 a central position and glued. This section is five and a half 

 inches square. They use wooden dividers (Fig. 46, a), one- 

 FiG. 46. 



eighth of an inch thick, as long as the section, but one inch 

 less in height, so that below and above is a half-inch space, 

 which permits the bees to pass readily from one section to 

 another. These are held by a half-inch strip of tin (Fig. 46, 

 6, b), which passes through a groove (Fig. 46, c) in the ends 

 of the dividers, and reaches half an inch farther ; then turns 

 at right-angles and ends in a point (Fig. 46, b), which, when 

 in use, sticks into the top or bottom pieces ; and so the four 

 points hold the dividers in place. When ready to sell, they 

 insert half-inch glass in the grooves each side the narrow side- 

 pieces, and with tins fasten glass on the faces, and have a 



Fig. 47. 



very handsome section. I think this preferable to the Russell 

 or Isham box or section, as the one-inch strip of wood covers 

 the part of the comb where it is fastened to the sides, which 

 is never attractive, while the rest is all glassed. Such sec- 



