FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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colony was due to the season, and how much to the in- 

 creased number, but that is one of the thing^s past find- 

 ing out. 



HEDDON SUPER. 



In the year 1883 I tried the Heddon super(Fig. 4) to 

 the number of two hundred. The Heddon super is much in 



Fig. 11. — Hive-Staples. 



form Hke a T super, but it is divided lengthwise into 

 four compartments. This prevents, of course, the possi- 

 bility of having separators running the length of the 

 super, so no separators are used. James Heddon and 

 others had reported success in obtaining sections that 

 were straight enough for satisfactory packing in a ship- 

 ping-case, but with me too many sections were bulged, 

 their neighbors being correspondingly hollowed out. I 

 did not continue the use of this super very long. 



