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AUSTRALASIAN BEE MANUAL 



Full depth combs, even when wired, are liable to be 

 damaged when a high speed is necessary, but the half 

 depth combs, needing no wire, stand a much greater 

 strain without risk. The frames are made in the same 



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-SHALLOW EXTRACTING FRAME. 



way as the larger ones, except that the top bar need 

 be only half as thick, and the inside depth, 4jin,, it will 

 then fit an ordinary half-storv bodv. 



BROAD SECTION-FRAMES. 



These are made to hold four sections in one tier as 

 shown in Fig. i,^. The old scheme of having two tiers 

 in full depth frames has been entirely discarded by pro- 

 gressive iDee-keepers. The top and bottom bars are the 

 same lenq-th as the larq-e fram.es, but slicfhtlv over i^in. 



Fig. 



35. HALF-STORY FRAME WITH SECTIONS AND 



TIN SEPARATOR. 



