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boxes. Nothing destroys the nice appearance of comb-honey 
more than a clumsily-made section box. Before the neat dove- 
tailed sections now made by Messrs. Bagnall Brothers were 
obtainable in these colonies I used to get my material cut by 
a cabinet-maker who had a very fine-toothed circular saw, but 
as the different parts of the boxes had to be nailed together 
stouter material was required for the sides to hold the nails. 
The size of the one-pound section—outside measurement— 
is 41in. by 44in. The width of the top, bottom, and sides 
should be the same as the section frame, viz., top and bottom 
a sixteenth less than one and three-quarter inches, and the 
sides a sixteenth less than two inches. When cut for nailing, 
the sides should be four inches long by three-sixteenths of an 
inch thick, and the top and bottom four and a quarter inches 
long by an eighth of an inch thick. A small form on the 
principle of the frame form should be used when nailing them. 
Half-inch brads I found best for driving, not being so liable to 
split the wood as a larger nail. For two-peund sections, suit- 
able for the Langstroth frame, the tops and bottoms require to 
be 84 inches long, but the sides are the same as for the 
one-pound box. 
ONE PIECE SECTIONS. 
Section boxes made out of one piece of timber are now very 
largely used in England and America, and I think might be 
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Fig. 58.:-ONE PIECE SECTION. 
introduced by manufacturers into these colonies with advantage. 
The pieces, after being ripped from a block of wood that has 
been previously shaped to the required form and dovetailed at 
the ends, are run across three saws placed the proper distance 
apart. The saw cuts run nearly through the pieces, leaving 
sufficient wood, however, to hold the joints when they are 
folded up. 
PUTTING DOVETAILED SECTIONS TOGETHER. 
When first using dovetailed sections I found something more 
than hand pressure was required to put them together firm and 
strong; I therefore made a small lever cramp, shown in Fig. 59 
