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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 my one; my son Charlie, when a little chap, could distance 

 me in putting together sections; and I think Philo can beat me 

 at taking sections out of supers. 



PUTTING STARTEBS 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% inches it would hardly do to 

 throw the sections 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 ifito 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 less time, for there is not the same need of 

 care in placing the sections so that other sections will not be 

 knocked off the board, but the sections are shoved into place ia 

 the super in a sort of automatic way. Then, too, it is a com- 

 fort to get them directly into the super, for while on a board, 

 even for a short time, there is always danger of some mishap 

 by yhich a boardful may tumble over and come to grief. 



SUPER-FILLER. 



I'll tell you how to make a super-filler. Take a board as 

 large as the outside dimensions of your super or larger. (The 



