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very strongly attached at the top, very little at the side, and not 

 at all at the hottom. Aside from depending upon crowding the 

 hees to nial^e them All 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 

 reversible 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 J 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 (flg. 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 bboad fkames, are superior to the 

 former, — though they require special cases, — because the 

 bees can be confined to a shallow 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 



