THE PRODUCTION OF HONEY, 
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and held by so arranging the joints above that the 
sides tend to spring from the right angle towards 
each other. Mr. Raitt exhibited sections with a glass 
bottom rail as far back as 1875, and says of them: 
“ The combs in these are almost always fastened down 
along their whole length (the glass being thin and 
somewhat narrow), and the honey is stored right on 
to the glass, making a fine show of colour.” Sections 
with all sides glass are rather impracticable and over 
fragile, but a crate of such exhibited by the Hon. and 
Rev. H. Bligh I thought to be the most beautiful 
object of the kind I had ever seen. 
Sections are sometimes placed by the side of the 
brood-nest, in carriers or frames, as, by example, in 
the “Eclectic” (page 78). Six of the 4^in. by 4^in. 
may be very conveniently accommodated in a carrier 
of the standard size, having a zinc bottom rail, which 
practically does not increase its depth, while it is 
sufficiently stiff, because one edge is turned up at a 
right angle. One side, witff an inner loose piece, 
is arranged as a parallel wedge, which tightens up 
the sections, and yet, immediately it is withdrawn, 
makes all free for removal. The separators, more 
particularly explained hereafter, are permanently fixed, 
and prevent the sides of the frames from being driven 
beyond the correct distance from each other. In my 
judgment, sections on the side of the brood-nest give 
much trouble, and are, all things considered, undesirable. 
The framing which holds the sections together, so 
that they can be moved bodily, and placed over the 
hive, is called either a rack or a crate, the former 
term being generally applied when no box-like sides 
