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A. A ‘T” super is a plain box without top or bottom, one- 
quarter inch deeper than the height of the sections it is to con- 
tain. On the bottom, at each end, is a plain strip of tin to support 
one end of the sections in the end rows, and at the proper places 
staples are driven into the bottom and then bent so as to support 
the “T” tins inside. On page 19 of “Forty Years Among the Bees” 
is a picture of a “T” super, which is reproduced here. I’m sorry 
Fig. 24. — A T-Super. 
to say it doesn’t show as plainly as it might what a "T” super is. 
The three “T” tins are shown loose, and you will see at the bot- 
tom of the super the supports for them, which are here squares 
of sheet-iron nailed on. The bent staples are later, and perhaps 
a little better. 
It seems a very strange inconsistency that allows “T” tins to be 
listed in a catalogue and not the “T” super, for without the “T" 
super one will have no use for a “T” tin. For some reason, no 
manufacturer pushes “T” supers, and yet there are not a few who 
produce section-honey on a large scale who will have no others. 
As for myself, I have tried about all the surplus arrangements 
for section-honey that have been put on the market, some of 
them on a pretty large scale, and as yet have found nothing else 
to equal the “T” super. I have seen it condemned, but when I 
learned how it was used, without taking advantage of its best 
