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raters to the plain sections D, and answer the same purpose as the 

 fence-separator. T have used them with success. Broken sections 

 cut up into excellent uprights. 



Sections. 



The wire cradle is designed to contain six rows of four sections 

 each as in A in the diagram ; two of the sides work with collaps- 

 ible springs, thus the sections are always compact and firmly held 

 together. The writer has used them with marked success. They 

 were first used at the Sydney Agricultural College Apiary. 





b.. 





Wire Section Cradle. 



THE BERLEPSCH HIVE. 



This is another make of hive that has still a remnant of admirers 

 even in New South Wales. Men, who in their early bee-keeping 

 days, learned the manipulation of bees with these hives, still cling 

 to them, perhaps for the sake of "Auld Lang Syne," and seem 

 loth to go in for "innovations," notwithstanding that where one 

 Berlepsch admirer is to be met with, there are hundreds of bee- 

 keepers who use the Langstroth hives. Many of the Langstroth 

 devotees can date their bee-keeping days back to the use of the 

 Berlepsch, and were loud in its praise till a new love drew off their 



