Grates for /Sections. 



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second story of a two-story hive, and just so many as to fill the 

 same — my hives will take nine— or they can be put below, 

 beside the brood-combs. Mr. Doolittle, in case he hangs these 

 below, inserts a perforated division-board, so that the queen 

 will not enter the sections and lay eggs. 



The perforated zinc division-board (Fig. 60) would serve 

 admirably for this purpose. A honey-board of the same 

 material keeps sections, either in crates or frames, that are 

 above the hive, neat, and also keeps the queen from entering 

 them. The workers enter just as freely. 



In long hives, the ' ' New Idea " — which I find very satis- 

 factory, after several years' trial, especially for extracted honey 

 — I have used these frames of sections, and with the best suc- 

 cess. The Italians enter them at once, and fill them even 

 more quickly than other bees fill the sections in the upper 



Fig. 61. 



Gallup Frame with Sections. 



story. In fact, one great . advantage of these sections in the 

 frames is the obvious and ample passage-ways, inviting the bees 

 to enter them. ^ But in our desire to make ample and inviting 

 openings, caution is required that we do not over-do the matter, 

 and invite the queen to injurious intrusion. So we have 

 Charybdis and Scylla, and must, by study, learn to so steer 

 between as to avoid both dangers. 



