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is more easily controlled, and that the queen 

 has ample laying-room. 



The beginner had better adopt the regula- 

 tion ten-frame size hive, as the expense will 

 be considerably less, as these goods are always 

 carried in stock by the supply houses ; and as 

 experience is gained, the larger hives can be 

 tried out according to one's own ideas, but these 

 experiments should be very carefully made, 

 for it is a waste of time and money to try 

 out hives of one's own invention when the very 

 ideas may have been tried and found wanting 

 many years ago. 



Now that you have the queen-excluder in 

 place, proceed to put on top of it a full-sized 

 body filled with extracting combs, and, if 

 combs are not at hand, then use frames with 

 full sheets of foundation wired in. The 

 extracting super will of course be of the same 

 size as the hive body, but it will be best not 

 to crowd the former with its full capacity of 

 frames, as experience has proved that it is 

 best to use but eight frames in a ten-frame ex- 



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