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allow a quarter-inch space for ventilation at the back rnd. When 
I don’t want that ventilation I tack on the super at the back end 
a strip as long as the width of the hive, or the super, and about 
seven-eighths by one-half. That makes the super long enough so 
it covers entirely the opening at the top of the hive. The super 
being made just as wide as the hive, of course it will be wider 
for a 10-frame hive than for an 8-frame hive. 
Q. Do you use springs with the “T” super? If so, how many, 
what kind, and how? 
A. I use a single spring in each super, crowded in between the 
follower and the side of the super. It is the common super- 
spring sold by supply dealers, in shape something like the elliptic 
of a buggy. 
Q. I think you spoke of driving the bent staples in level with 
the wood. If I understand it rightly, the T-tins are supported just 
the thickness of the staples above the bottom of the super. Am I 
right ? 
A. The idea is to get the bottoms of the sections as nearly as 
possible on a level with the bottom of the super, but in actual 
practice that will vary, for in bending over and driving down the 
staple it will be sometimes embedded in the wood. 
Q. Are the thin strips of wood better than an extra set of 
tins at top of the sections? I was under the impression that the 
tins were better. 
A. The wood strips leave propolis only at the corners of the 
sections, while “T” tins on top would invite lines of propolis at 
some distance from the corners. The wood is probably easier to 
put in place, and it holds the sections square, while a “T” tin on 
top would allow a little variation. Yet these differences do not 
amount to so very much. 
Super, Turned Over. — Q. Why wouldn’t it be a good plan to 
have the super so that you could turn it over? Wouldn’t we get 
better filled sections? 
A. Supers have been made to use in that way, but have never 
come into general use; perhaps because the advantage did not pay 
for the extra trouble. 
Supersedure. — Q. Is there any way to tell a supersedure 
queen-cell from a swarming cell, during the swarming season? 
A. There is no difference between a supersedure-cell and a 
swarming-cell, either in appearance or any other way. It may 
