146 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



sonally, for it may be that some one else does the work 

 entirely. But when any new implement is to be used or 

 new plan tried, I first carefully study it up and try to 

 learn just how it ought to be used, and then I instruct 

 the one who is to make a specialty of that part of the 

 work, and in a short time the specialist far exceeds the 

 instructor. Miss Wilson can put in, I think, five starters 

 to mv one ; my son Charlie, when a little chap, could dis- 

 tance me in putting together sections ; and I think Philo 

 can beat me at taking sections out of supers. 



PUTTING STARTERS IN SECTIONS. 



The Daisy foundation-fastener is so well known that 

 I need say nothing about the use of the machine itself. 

 As the operator sits at the machine with a small pile of 

 starters in the lap, a boardful of sections is at the left 

 hand at a. convenient height, the side of the board toward 

 the operator (Fig. 87). The bottom-starter is put in 

 first, then the top-starter. When the section has its two 

 starters, it is put directly into the super. With a starter 

 as deep as 3^4 inches it would hardly do to throw the sec- 

 tion in a basket. Formerly the sections when filled were 

 placed in order on a board the same as the board from 

 which they were taken, and it was a separate job after- 

 ward to fill them in the super. 



PUTTING SECTIONS IN SUPERS. 



By means of an implement of my own devising, 

 which for want of a better name may be called a "super- 

 filler" (Fig. 63), the separate job of filling sections in 

 supers is now entirely dispensed with, and the sections go 

 directly from the Daisy fastener into the super, taking 

 no more time to be put into the super than it would take 

 to put them on a board. Indeed, I think it takes a little 



