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COMB HONEY, APPLIANCES, FOR 
two edges at a time. Weight for weight, 
and of the same filling, a comb in a plain 
section looks fuller than one having bee- 
wavs. The illustration on this page 
shows beeway sections in one shipping case, 
and plain sections in the other. (Plain 
sections in upper case.) 
The fences are made up of a series of 
slats having a scant bee-space between each 
slat; and as the cross-cleats, or posts, are 
% inch shorter than the length of the sec¬ 
tion, the beeway is very much wider. In¬ 
stead of being a narrow opening thru the 
top as in the old section, the opening is 
clear across the top, and part way down 
and up each of the sides. This gives the 
bees freer communication, and, in conse¬ 
quence, has a tendency to reduce the size 
of the corner holes in each section. 
Horizontal openings between each of the 
slats allow free communication from one 
section to another, not only crosswise but 
lengthwise of the super. On account of 
this a good many have already testified 
that they secured much better and more 
perfect filling of combs in plain sections 
than in the old style with solid separators; 
that the bees enter plain sections sooner, 
and that in some markets better prices are 
secured. There are others who say they 
can see no difference. 
Under the same conditions the plain sec¬ 
tions will be filled no better than the bee- 
way. If there is any difference in the 
filling, it is because the one offers special 
advantages in the way of freer communica¬ 
tion. In the ordinary old-style, with 
solid separators, each section, so to speak, 
is shut off in a little box by itself, and it 
has been proven that bees are disinclined 
to work in little compartments almost com¬ 
pletely shut off from the rest. Open-corner 
sections, divided off by means of slatted 
separators, without cleats, should and 
would be filled just as well as plain sec¬ 
tions divided off by fences. The conditions 
will be precisely the same, because the bee- 
ways, made part and parcel of these sec¬ 
tions, exactly correspond to the beeways 
(cleats) on the fences. But one would lose 
many of the advantages of plain sections, 
if he were to adopt the open-corner boxes. 
They would not look, with even filling, as 
pretty as plain sections. 
SUPERS FOR PLAIN SECTIONS. 
In the main, supers for plain sections 
differ very little from the section-holder 
super already shown and described for the 
old-style sections. The section-holders 
themselves are the same width as the sec¬ 
tions. Between each row of sections in a 
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section-holder is placed a fence, the end- 
post of the fence resting upon the strip of 
tin nailed on the bottom inside edge of the 
end of the super. An additional fence is 
inserted on the outside of each outside row 
of sections, because it was demonstrated by 
