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screws, M, the case is drawn so tight on the sections that all 

 cracks between them are closed up, thus protecting the surface 

 of the boxes from being soiled. 



" To prevent the spreading of the case when the clamp is 

 removed, four simple tin wedges, F, F, are slipped under the 

 flange, and the nail head. 



" This bottomless case of sections is then placed on the hive on 

 a slotted honey board, which is level on top and has slots to cor- 

 respond with those between the sections, save that the slots in 

 the board are a little narrower, to secure perfect protection to the 

 sections. If separators are used, they are simply dropped in be- 

 tween the rows of sections as each row is put in. (See O, fig. 177). 

 They rest on the edges of two narrow strips of tin, P, P, that 

 pass across each end of the case between the rows of sections at 

 the bottom. These strips are movable, and securely held in 

 place while handling, like the sections, by the lateral pressure 

 of the case. The iron clamp is not a necessity, but it is very 

 convenient where several colonies are kept. The case is equally 

 adapted to use with or without separators. It can be used 

 with or without an outer ease. It can be ' tiered up ', ' reversed ', 

 (inverted) or placed on end or on one side for ' side storing '." 



743. In removing the cases from the hive, apply the clamp 

 and lift all together, or open the case and take out one box at a 

 time, using a little smoke, and shaking and brushing off the 

 bees. Nearly all of the bees can be shaken from a single case- 

 full before opening it ; but the neatest way to get them out is to 

 place the cases in an empty hive a little to one side of the front of 

 the hive from which they were taken. Fasten a wire cloth tube 

 over the only opening at the entrance of this empty hive. Make 

 the tube 6 inches long, | inch in diameter at the small end, and 1^ 

 Inch at the end attached to the hive. Place the hive in position 

 so that the point of the tube will touch the front end of the hive 

 containing the colony. In a few moments, the bees will be march- 

 ing ' double quick ' out through the tube, and in an hour or so 

 every bee will be out." (Oliver Foster, " How to Raise Comb 

 Honey." 1886.) 



We advise every bee-keeper to procure this small pam- 

 phlet. 



744. In support of what Mr. Foster wrote in behalf of 

 the open-side sections, We may add that bees seem to con- 

 sider a row of these sections as formed of a single comb, 



