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top ones) in sections of comb honey.” Kindly explain this method, 
as I have never seen it in the papers. I have the Daisy founda- 
tion-fastener, and would like to try bottom and top starters. 
Would you make them meet in the center? Or how much space 
between the starters? When they are fastened only at the top, 
they twist and do not hang true. 
A. The matter is very simple, and your Daisy fastener is just 
Fig. 11. — A frame containing mostly drone-brood, the result of a narrow starter 
of foundation. 
the thing to fasten a bottom as well as a top starter. It wouldn't 
do at all to let the two starters meet in the center, for in that 
case the bottom-starter would be certain to fall down and make 
a mess. When you buy foundation for sections, you are likely to 
get it in sheets 15}4x374 inches. This is just right to make four 
starters of each kind. The top-starters are 3% inches deep, and 
the bottom ones %. For a section that is four inches deep inside, 
you will see that would leave a space of % inch between the start- 
ers. In reality the space will generally be more than that, for 
the hot plate melts a little of the edges of the starters. First 
fasten the bottom-starter, turn the section over immediately, and 
put in the other starter. If your bees are like mine, the first 
thing they will do on being given the sections will be to fasten 
the upper and lower starters together. 
Even for th'e home market, I should prefer the bottom-starter. 
It makes a nicer looking section. Unless a single starter comes 
down so far that it is likely to sag, some of the sections, espe- 
cially when honey is coming in slowly, will not be built down to 
the bottom. Although the bottom-starter is original with me, I 
don’t believe I’m sufficiently prejudiced in its favor to stand the 
extra trouble unless there were a sufficient gain to pay for it. 
