412 HOKET PRODUCTION. 



Sections are either crated, in cases (fig. 170), or hung in 

 broad frames (fig. 171), of full depth, or half depth. Both 



Fig )71 (From "Bee.:; and Honey. 'M 

 FULL DEPTH SECTION FKAMB. 



ways have their friends, and both are good, as long the main 

 principles are adhered to. 



725. These principles are based on the difHculties, that 

 have to be overcome in comb-honey production, as follows : 



1st. Inducing the bees to work in 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. 1st. 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 



