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in this shape is growing, even where there 
is no legislation requiring sealed packages, 
shows that not many years hence comb 
honey will have to be put up in that form, 
if for no other reason than to shut out the 
typhoid house fly. 
Some beekeepers sell their honey in fold¬ 
ing cartons, the top and bottom sliding into 
slits provided. But such cartons do not 
seal the package hermetically. 
The publishers of this work have for 
several years back put out a package sealed 
with glue under the name of “Airline,” 
such name being drawn from the name of 
A. I. Root, the original author of this 
work, and president of the company. Air¬ 
line means beeline; and the fact that the 
A. I. Root Co. is selling comb honey in 
these sealed packages—tens of thousands 
of dollars in value—shows that the demand 
for comb honey put up in attractive form, 
and sealed from the typhoid fly and other 
insects, is on the increase. 
For hints on marketing see Extracted 
Honey, Bottling Honey, Peddling Hon¬ 
ey, and particularly Marketing Honey, 
found in their alphabetical order. 
DEVICES FOR HOLDING SECTIONS WHILE BE¬ 
ING FILLED ON THE HIVE. 
Sections cannot very well be placed on 
the hive to be filled by bees without some 
sort of arrangement to hold them. There 
are a score of different sorts of wide 
frames, racks, trays, boxes, clamps, all of 
which possess some special features. It 
would be impracticable to show all of 
them; but for the sake of illustrating some 
principles it may be well to mention some 
of those that have been used most largely. 
What was known as the double-tier wide 
frame was perhaps the first device for hold¬ 
ing sections in the hive. This consisted of 
a frame of the same inside depth and 
length as the ordinary brood-frame, but of 
the same width as the section, eight sec¬ 
tions to the frame. It was used very 
largely for a while, but in the course of 
time it was discovered that it had several 
objectionable features. First, a whole hive¬ 
ful of them gave the bees too much capac¬ 
ity to start on and, as a consequence, this 
discouraged them from beginning work. 
Second, they did not permit tiering up to 
advantage. 
The Doolittle surplus arrangement con¬ 
sisted of a series of single-tier wide frames 
having no projections to the top-bars, altho 
shallow wide frames have been made with 
such projections. Both the double and 
single tier wide frames had the merit of 
protecting the surfaces of the sections from 
travel-stain and bee glue. 
T SUPER. 
The T super at one time was one of the 
most popular forms of section-crates, and 
a few prefer it to anything else. It is so 
named for the T tins that support the 
sections. The tins are folded in the form 
Regular T super. 
of a letter T inverted, such construction 
making a very stiff and rigid support. This 
appliance takes separators very nicely, the 
separators resting on the T tins. 
Some, like the late Dr. Miller, prefer to 
have the T tins rest loosely on a little piece 
of strap iron, or bent staple, both for con¬ 
venience in filling the supers, and in emp¬ 
tying the same after the sections are filled. 
But there were others who objected to 
loose pieces, and preferred the super with 
stationary tins, the tins being nailed to the 
bottom inside edges of the super. 
But the T super has its objections. If 
the sections are inclined to be a little out 
