412 HONEY PRODUCTION. 
Sections are either crated, in cases (fig. 170), or hung in 
broad frames (fig. 171), of full sod di or half depth. Both 
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FULL DEPTH SECTION FRAME. 
ways have their friends, and both are good, as long the main 
principles are adhered to. 
725. These principles are based on the difficulties, that 
have to be overcome in comb-honey production, as follows: 
ist. Inducing the bees to workin small receptacles ; 
2d. Forcing them to build the combs straight and even, 
without bulge, so that the sections can be interchanged 
without being bruised against one another, when taken off 
and crated for market; 
3d. Keeping the queen in the brood apartment, and pre. 
venting her from breeding in the sections ; 
4th. Preventing swarming as much as possible; 
5th. Arranging the sections so as to have as little propolis 
put on them as possible (237); 
6th. Getting the greatest number of sections thoroughly 
sealed, as unsealed honey is unsalable. 
726. Ist. INDUCING BEES TO WORK IN SMALL RECEPTACLES, 
Rather than work in small, empty receptacles, the bees 
sometimes crowd their honey in the brood chamber, till 
the queen can find no room to lay in, and swarming, or a 
smaller crop of honey, is the consequence. To remedy 
this evil, some of our leading bee-keepers have resorted to 
an old, discarded, French practice, ‘‘ reversing.’’ Reversing 
consists in turning the brood chamber‘upside down and 
