. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 581 Now, why couldn't honey-producers have been content with this simple style of section-rack, but must needs go com- plicating matters with these holders and tin T rests, and what not, until it has become almost as easy to acquire a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of the human subject as that of the multifarious parts of the present-day domicil of the busy bee. Bear in mind that in this " flat-a-top " rack system, the lid also fits plump down on top of the upper tier of sections. Now must there, in your op
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 581 Now, why couldn't honey-producers have been content with this simple style of section-rack, but must needs go com- plicating matters with these holders and tin T rests, and what not, until it has become almost as easy to acquire a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of the human subject as that of the multifarious parts of the present-day domicil of the busy bee. Bear in mind that in this " flat-a-top " rack system, the lid also fits plump down on top of the upper tier of sections. Now must there, in your opinion, be an air-space between the top tier of sections and cover ? If so, why so ? South Africa. [The foregoing letter to Dr. Miller was written some months ago, and should have appeared before, but somehow it was overlooked among other manuscripts in this office. Here is Dr. Miller's reply to Mr. Deacon's letter :—Editor.] Mr. Editor, I'm very glad to give my opinions, so far as I have any, upon the points mentioned in Mr. Deacon's very interesting letter. If he had been present when I read it, I'm afraid he would have thought I wasn't very sympathetic, but as he was away off in Africa, where he couldn't hear me, I took the privilege of laughing heartily over his tribulations, or perhaps more properly at his way of relating them. With regard to the general accusation as to the desire to invent and adopt something new just because it is new, or of one's own invention, I may say that the T super is not an in- vention of mine, and that I have adhered to it without change some 12 years. When I find something enough better to warrant a change, I may change, but it will be only after thorough trial. With regard to the section-rack you describe, Mr. Deacon, you set me an ungracious task to give an opinion about it, well knowing something about the feeling that attaches to an article one has settled down upon as all right, especially after one has added to it one's own " impro
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