THE PRODUCTION OF HONEY. 
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The removal of the latter loosens the board, and puts 
each section individually under command at once. If a 
single storey, or any number of storeys of sections be 
used, calico will be placed above, to close the open- 
ings, and then jacketing, or quilt, as may be deemed 
necessary. If storey be tiered on storey, the crate 
will provide intermediate bee-spaces, the bottom rail 
of each section being left free, a point which seems 
very desirable in securing nice finishing of the comb 
at the lower edge. 
Such a crate of sections as we have been describing, 
placed, at the opening of an abundant honey-flow, 
over a stock greatly in need of Increased accommo- 
dation, would not only be taken to at once, but work 
would also be commenced in all the sections simul- 
taneously, and, as a result, the combs would grow pari 
passu, their faces approaching each other until room 
for the little labourers is alone found, when sealing 
with dainty caps completes the work. But this ideal 
exactness is only very rarely attained. If the bees 
are. not greatly overcrowded, the addition of a section 
crate gives them more space than they can instantly 
fully fill, and a cluster takes possession of its central 
part, as here, immediately over the densest masses of 
brood, the temperature needed for wax secretion and 
modelling is the more easily kept up. The first- 
constructed combs then maintain the start they 
have (see page 269), and so intrude into the ad- 
joining box, preventing glazing, causing bleeding in 
separating, unequal weight in the several sections, 
and all-round annoyances, which half nullify the 
advantages of the section system. To overcome these 
