. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1916. Different Styles of bEPARATORs made to the advantage of the honey- producer and his product. The one-piece 4'4 beeway section is the one most commonly used. When it was first originated the beeway was cut '4 inch deep, thus making the top partly inches, the sides 2 inches; in other words, maintaining a difference of >^ inch in the respective widths. The difference between top and sides, when the section was made of four pieces, was only 's inch, which was sufficient, and also just accommodated the glass used in glassing our sections
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1916. Different Styles of bEPARATORs made to the advantage of the honey- producer and his product. The one-piece 4'4 beeway section is the one most commonly used. When it was first originated the beeway was cut '4 inch deep, thus making the top partly inches, the sides 2 inches; in other words, maintaining a difference of >^ inch in the respective widths. The difference between top and sides, when the section was made of four pieces, was only 's inch, which was sufficient, and also just accommodated the glass used in glassing our sections at this early time. It has always been a puzzle to me why, when the one- piece section was adopted, the depth of the beeway {insci as it is called by some manufacturers) was increased. Since 1885 I have had the beeways cut 's inch deep in all my sections and found this depth sufficient; seeing no reason today, after 30 years of exten- sive beekeeping, to make any change. It is the best, because it protects the honey produced the most; but when I order sections to be thus made, I have to pay usually a little extra for setting machinery. A few years ago some 4,'4 sections were shipped me with bee- ways fs inch deep, as shown in my illustration No. 1. This was very bad, and has been objected to by every one who came to me for sections from that lot. I have still a small stock of them on hand. Number 2 in the illustration shows a section with properly cut beeway or inset la inch deep. Number 3 shows my no Deeway or plain 4x5xlK sections. I am using these in my wide frame supers of which I have several hundred in use. These wide frames are provided with fences or cleated separators of different pat- tern, some of which are shown in my second illustration. In the first place I wish to draw the attention of the reader to the cleats and their different widths. The cleats on the lower frame are only '4 inch wide; the cleats on the middle frame are % inch wide; those on the topmost frame
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