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a rack filled with prize-sections, that was at one time thought 
a great deal of in America. The rack and case system for 
sections has been adopted by a great many bee-keepers the 
United States, but there are a few leading men who still 
adhere to the frames. Some five years ago I gave the above 
kind of rack a fair trial through one season. At that time I 
was raising large quantities of comb-honey by the frame 
method. I soon discarded the racks, and have never used 
them since. The objections I had to them were :—Ilst. I could 
not tier them up, a fatal objection, in my opinion, to any 
system for raising comb-honey. 2nd. The trouble and expense 
of blocking up the outside sections with glass or wood to pre- 
vent bees getting out. 3rd. When removing some of the 
boxes the bees would crowd outside, and so get in the way 
when the cover was to be put on; and 4th. I could not 
examine one of the central boxes without disturbing nearly all 
the others. 
THE HEDDON SECTION CASE. 
Improvements are continually being made in racks as well 
as other appliances connected with bee-culture, consequently 
Fig, 61.-THE HEDDON SECTION CASE. 
there are more convenient ones in use now, but no rack, in my 
opinion, is equal to the Heddon case for sections (Fig. 61). It 
is much easier to make than a rack, and to my mind very much 
handier to use. It will be seen by the engraving that the case 
is very similar to the body of a half-story hive, divided by 
partitions crosswise into four compartments, each wide enough 
to take a one-pound section box. Mr. Heddon, who has raised 
comb-honey on an extensive scale, was, as he says, ‘one of the 
pioneer opposers of wide frames and separators,” but having 
been persuaded to give them another trial, he says :— 
‘*T did so by making 350 wide frame supers (one stor ti f 
sections high), and used these side by side and over and ae 300 of 
