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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
necessarily a one-storey affair only, but the combs were, 
if only straightly built, most easy separable. They 
were clean and handy, easily cut from the wood, and, 
consequently, marketable. The divisional super is the 
clear prototype of the section, and the passage from 
one to the other was but a step. With the advent of 
the section, a new era opened in the production of, 
and demand for, comb honey, as now the waxen cell, 
ready to yield its unsophisticated contents upon the 
slightest pressure, could appear upon the table with 
a neatness, finish, and beauty which before had been 
unattainable. 
Fig. 104 .— Root’s Dovetailed Section Box. 
A, Side Piece. B, Top Piece— ,o. Groove to ’•eceive Foundation. C, Top View of 
Box complete— i/Z, gl, Glass. D, Box with (/) Foundation. 
Many questions yet remained for settlement. Inter- 
changeability of frames is hardly more desirable than 
was some mutual understanding as to standard sizes 
in sections, for many forms were already upon the 
market ; but Mr. Root did much — at least, in establish- 
ing a standard — by producing cheaply an ingenious 
form (Root’s Dovetailed Section), which so nearly met 
the requirements of the case that it has yet many 
admirers ; while for stability and portability no suc- 
cessor has excelled it. It is made of clean bass-wood 
