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swarm when supered for comb-honey. Then, again, there is 
the space occupied by these separators which might be more 
profitably filled with honey. 
The only method which appears practicable at present to 
attain this end is to use narrower sections. Nearly all who 
have experimented conclude that with the two-inch sections 
separators are indispensable, but with sections running seven 
to the foot, ora width of slightly under 1 #in. to each box, they 
have obtained satisfactory results without separators. With 
only one bee space between the combs, instead of two, as there 
must be with separators, the narrower sections when well filled 
are said to weigh about the same as the two-inch ones. A 
Langstroth hive would take eight rows of the smaller size in 
the place of seven of the larger boxes. Opinions are very 
much divided upon the matter at present ; I would therefore 
advise those who might wish to give the system a trial not to 
go to much expense or trouble at first in making the necessary 
alterations in their present appliances. 
SECTION RACKS AND CASES. 
Hitherto I have only mentioned the broad frame system in 
connection with sections, but there is another method of 
nou 
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Fig. 60,_PRIZE SECTION RACK. 
A. A wedge for jamming the sections together. BB. Tin separators. 
co. Glass in outside boxes. 
placing section boxes on a hive which dispenses with the 
frames. What is termed a rack is formed, consisting of a light 
framework of wood, across which thin laths are nailed three- 
eighths of an inch from the bottom at equal distance apart ; 
on the edges of these the sections rest. The rack is set on 
top of the frames, and takes the place of an ordinary super, a 
deep cover fits over all, and rests on the hive. Fig. 60 shows 
