I would not advise anyone to attempt to produce comb honey if he will not take the time to attend to the bees during the nectar flow. If they are neglected and not properly supered one will not get the crop or there will be an unnecessary amount of swarming. If one has but little time I think extracted honey would be the kind to produce. There is little if any trouble about swarming, but if full-depth bodies are used for supers the supering is but little trouble, if one has them to put on when needed. It is not best to put on two or three and let them go. One might have to do that way and get a good crop too; but if nice, fat combs are'produced they will be produced where the bees have not too big a surface to cover. It is not advisable for anyone to attempt to produce comb honey alone. The flow is not always good enough for comb honey, and there are always colonies in any apiary that are not strong enough for comb honey but are strong enough to store extracted honey. It seems to me that the beekeeper should produce both. If one has the equipment and is ready for a big crop and the good big season we all look for every year, and gets all the comb-honey supers filled, he is far ahead financially of what he would be if producing only extracted honey. About sections and filling sections with foundation: I have tried three arrangements that are supposed to fasten foundation to the top of the section by the hot-plate method. They have been a rank failure with me. There is not enough melteded wax to do the job so they will stay. You know, as my bees are in the country, the supers have to be handled several times and then take some bumping on the road, and I want that foundation to stay put. I use full sheets, of course. I cut the foundation so it just fits inside the section, and then with melted wax, that stands on an oil stove near me, I fasten the foundation to the wood. I use a bristle brush with a long handle. They are what are sold as artists' bristles, and a flat one is better than a round one, and should be about a quarter of an inch wide. While fastening foundation that way is not the fastest way, it is much faster than the Van Duseen fastener, and the beauty of it is that it does the job, and a super has to have rougher handling than I ever gave one to loosen foundation from the section. I have tried half sheets of foundation, a short starter, and a sheet about four-fifths the depth of the section and then a bottom starter. I really think the latter is the very best method of putting foundation in sections, but it is troublesome, and I have been cutting my sheets so they will just go in the section and fastening them on three sides with wax as described. If one uses a short starter he will have many sections in a crop that are not fastened at the sides or bottom. He, will have many built nearly full about half way down, and then quit. He will have a lot of chunk honey in sections, which is too expensive a way to produce chunk honey. If the flow is good and the bees are strong one can get good comb honey with short starters. If one uses full sheets the bees will begin sooner without crowding, will fill the sections quicker, there will be few half-built sections if properly supered, and there will be light sections instead of chunks reaching half way down, and the light sections will be straight and marketable. When I see the crop coming I order shipping cases and get them nailed, and as fast as the supers are packed I fill the supers with new sections, having a large number ready and waiting for that time. The reason for that is that sometimes we get a big heartsease flow in August and September, and I want to be ready for that in case it does come. Another reason for getting the comb honey off as soon as it is done is to prevent the bees from getting it travel stained and injuring the color. In packing it I sometimes find a section or two that are not finished. I fill supers with these and give them back to the bees, as I always start packing before the flow is entirely over, if possible. If I have a quantity of these left after the flow is over, and they are too light to market, I extract them and save the combs and sections,dividing them up in the supers for the next year. The foundation and the sections are not wasted, and the bees start much sooner in a super that has one or more of these combs in it.