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A YEAR AMONG .THE BEES. 
WIDE FRAMES. 
The first sections I used were the common, 1-pound, 
section. I used them in the wide frame, two tiers deep, that 
is, eight sections in a frame. The supers were exactly the 
same as the hive, except that there were no entrances nor 
bottom-hoards. One advantage of this was that, at any time, 
I could change a super to a hive by simply chiseling out an 
entrance and nailing a couple of boards on the bottom. Or 
I could use one, at any time, as a hive, without any change, 
by placing it on a stand and letting the front end project 
over, a la Simplicity. These supers measured 1534 inches, 
inside width ; and putting into one of them 7 wide frames 2 
Wide Frame, holding 8 one-pound Sections. 
inches wide, and a dummy %-inch thick, left, theoretically, 
1 34 -inches space ; as a matter of fact, it was less than 1 inch. 
Each frame had nailed upon it two tin separators 3 % inches 
wide, leaving the open spaces at the top and bottom over the 
comb-surface M of an inch. The frames, filled with sections, 
were put into the super, the open side, or side without a 
separator, being put next to the south side, and the dummy 
at the north side, then with the chisel I crowded all close 
together, using no wedges or other means to keep them there. 
This was a large amount of storage-room— 5G sections— to 
put on at first, but I saw no easy way to avoid it. The bees, 
of course, were rather slow to occupy so large aspace, and as 
