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called attention to. The narrower it is made consistent with 

 strength, the more readily will the bees attach the comb thereto. 

 The latest antipropolising invention comes to us from 

 America Of course, it has not had time as yet to be put into 

 use here. A. J. Root, who brought it out, and has tested 

 it, speaks with the greatest confidence for the merits claimed for 

 it, and, from the diagrams forwarded with the description, very 

 justly so. It has come into my hands since I commenced this part 

 of my subject. It is well known that bees have an aversion to 

 work on metals of any kind ; hence the metal rebate and the 

 Allwood metal ends. I have shown wherein the latter failed. 

 This latest cannot be charged with such a weakness. The shoulder 

 of the top bar is reduced in (bee-space) on either end for the 

 purpose of preventing its coming into contact with the woodwork 

 of the hive. After the frame is put together, a staple is driven 

 through the end bar and into the thick top, one on either end, 

 as shown in the diagram. In putting the frame into position the 

 staple comes flush against the elevated portion of the metal re- 

 bate, metal against metal, thus the only wood that can be glued 



Gauge. 



is where the top of the frame rests on the knife edge of the tin 

 rabbet. The staple is driven home within | in. A wood gauge, 

 as shown, is used to prevent the staple being driven otherwise 

 than correct, a device that I adopted very successfully when using 

 the Berlepsch frame. These latter frames when put into the 

 hive at the back, were pressed into position, and, to secure the 

 proper space between the frames, flat-headed nails were used. To 

 secure a uniform protruding length, I always used such a gauge. 



Notwithstanding Prof. Cook's statement that the bar frame 

 left the hand of its inventor "in so perfect a form," etc., it does 

 not appear as yet, after upwards of forty years being in use, to be 

 past improvement. 



Keady-made bar-frames are obtainable from dealers in bee goods, 

 very cheapiy. They should be purchased in the flat. 



