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lots of bees (technically nuclei) can be readily formed, and having done 

 duty returned to any stock without loss. We will explair. the method of 

 makiag the frame, giving the measurements for the Woodbury, but these 

 can, of course, be most easily altered to any standard. 



A strip of wood (Pig. 53) fin. thick and |rn. wide is out 16iiQ. long, 



9 i 



^ y 



Fia. 53. 

 and pencil lines b and A are drawn across it |in. from its extremities, 

 the line e occupies the centre, exactly SJin. from each end, and c, (J, <!, /, 

 and g, are placed at fin. from each other, fe I and m m are now added with 

 a gauge marker, and, e being cut through with a fine saw, the parts shaded 

 are removed. The tongue thus left on one half fits into the hollow made 

 iQ the other, so that the two being shut together the length of the bar 

 is reduced to ISia. and fits the Woodbury hive. To the respective halves, 

 with brads or panel pins, the uprights of the frames, each Sin. long, 

 are fixed, having their outer faces upon the lines 6 and d, / and %. The 

 bottom bars complete the whole, which takes the form of Fig. 54. Holes 



Fio. 5*. Cheshire Twin Pkame. 

 bored at y and g, receiving a bellhanger's clip when the halves have been 

 put together, make the frame fit to receive the comb, which should 

 contain hatching brood, and may be transferred from an ordinary frame 

 with scarcely any loss. It may then be placed in the hive whence the 

 comb was taken, for the bees to fix and repair the latter. In twenty-four 

 hours it win be ready for removal to the nucleus hive, which for these 

 frames shoiild be 3Jin. wide inside, 9ia. deep, and 7J from front to rear. 

 We make ours with double sides, with air space, this is desirable, as bees 

 thus protected, even when in small numbers, maintain their necessary 

 heat J while in their makeshift nucleus boxes they are chilled at night and 

 scorched by day, and often raise poor and weak queens from the cells 



