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very strongly attached at the top, very little at the side, and not 
at all at the bottom. Aside from depending upon crowding the 
‘ees to make them fill the sections, I wanted a plan whereby I 
could be sure of having the sections fastened at the bottom as 
well as at the top. I tried to take partly filled sections out of 
the supers and reversing them, and went so far as to invent a 
teversible super, I abandoned this however, and adopted the 
plan of putting a starter in the bottom as well as at the top of 
the section.” (‘‘A Year Among the Bees.” ) 
Dr. Miller, who is an authority on comb honey produc- 
tion, further states that he uses a foundation ‘‘starter’’ one 
inch wide at the bottom, and wide enough at the top to 
leave only + inch of room between the two. This allows 
for the slight stretching usual in comb foundat on. 
737. To prevent the building of bridges between the 
upper and lower stories, some Apiarists use the Heddon 
skeleton or slatted honey board (fig. 76), which is separated 
from both the super and the brood chamber by a bee space, 
and in which the slats break the joints or passages of the 
bees thus —-_——_——. 
This honey board answers its purpose, but we object to 
it, because it places the supers in less direct communi- 
cation with the brood chamber. 
We will now consider a few of the various cases and 
crates used in the production of comb honey. 
738. THE DEEP BROAD FRAMES (fig. 171), have the deci- 
ded advantage of allowing the Apiarist to use sections in a 
full size upper story. In limited comb honey production, 
they can probably be used with satisfaction. They also 
allow of a side storage as practiced by Mr. Doolittle. 
THE HALF sTORY BROAD FRAMES, are superior to the 
former, — though they require special cases, — because the 
bees can be confined to ashallow space, and when the crop 
is limited, or the weather cool, the sections are better and 
more promptly finished. We prefer half story comb honey 
supers, for the same reason we do half story extracting 
