The Hetherington brothers make a very neat section, as follows: The top and bottom are each two inches wide, of one-quarter inch white pine. These receive a groove one-eighth inch from the ends, which receives the sides, one inch wide and one-eighth inch thick, which is pressed through to a central position and glued. This section is five and a half inches square. They use wooden dividers (Fig. 46, _a_) one-eighth of an inch thick, as long as the section, but one inch less in height, so that below and above is a half-inch space, which permits the bees to pass readily from one section to another. These are held by a half-inch strip of tin (Fig. 46, _b, b_), which passes through a groove (Fig. 46, _c_) in the ends of the dividers, and reaches half an inch farther; then turns at right-angles and ends in a point (Fig. 46, _b_), which, when in use, sticks into the top or bottom pieces; and so the four points hold the dividers in place. When ready to sell, they insert half-inch glass in the grooves each side the narrow side-pieces, and with tins fasten glass on the faces, and have a very handsome section. I think this preferable to the Russell or Isham box or section, as the one-inch strip of wood covers the part of the comb where it is fastened to the sides, which is never attractive, while the rest is all glassed. Such sections were praised in New York and Cincinnati last season as very fine and neat; equal, if not superior, to all others. [Illustration: Fig. 47.] A. I. Root prefers sections made as are children's toy-blocks, the sides fastened by a sort of mortise and tennon arrangement (Fig. 47). I have received from Mr. James Heddon a similar section, but neater and more finished, which is made in Vermont. These are too complex to be made without machinery, are no better for their fancy corners--in fact, they are not as strong as is desirable--and, as we cannot afford to purchase our apparatus when we can as well make it ourselves, I cannot recommend them for general use. [Illustration: Fig. 48.] The Phelps-Wheeler-Betsinger sections (Fig. 48) are essentially the same. The top and bottom are a little more narrow than the sides, and are nailed to them. The Wheeler sections-invented and patented by Mr. Geo. T. Wheeler, Mexico, New York, in 1870--are remarkable for being the first (Fig. 52, _K_) to be used with tin separators (Fig. 52, _M_). Instead of making the bottoms one-quarter of an inch narrower for a passage, Mr. Wheeler made an opening in the bottom, as does Mr. Russell. HOW TO PLACE SECTIONS IN POSITION. There are two methods, each of which is excellent, and has, as it well may, earnest advocates--one by use of crates, the other by frames. SECTIONS IN FRAMES.