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securely between the halves of the split side bars, 
and the section has enough and to spare of that 
firmness which the folders often lack. By a plan, 
in my idea far too inconvenient to be largely adopted, 
three of these sections are placed in a frame (/r. Fig. 
109) the top and bottom bars of which are cut to 
follow the outlines of the top and bottom bars of the 
three sections standing between them. It will be 
noticed that this section, unlike Figs. 104 and 105, has 
incepts [in, in) on its sides* as well as above and below, 
so that, when the frames carrying them are placed 
side by side, and close together, in an upper storey, 
as is intended, bees can not only pass from storey 
to storey, if several be placed one over the other, but 
they can travel horizontally between the sections. 
Such are called four-way sections. In addition, the 
short lugs (/, Fig. 108) keep the boxes a bee-space 
{bs^ Fig. 109) from each other, permitting the bees 
to pass to each face of their work. These facilities 
make unnecessary the unsightly openings (popholes) 
between the section and the comb, the latter, as a 
rule, in consequence, being made to fill the section, 
to which it is evenly attached in every part. The 
reduction of the width of the side has another 
advantage : it gives the wax-worker opportunity of 
here finishing the attachment cell (see page 177, Vol. I., 
and page 223, Vol. II.), because she can stand in a 
position which permits of modelling the cell wall from 
both its sides. This says much in favour of rather 
narrower sections than those frequently used. In 
This important improvement originated in America, and must be 
generally adopted. 
