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to be examined with ease at any time. The brood chamber 
comes next, and on this the supers may rest if desired. 
The hive is also used with neither of the supers or chambers 
touching its neighbor, either for extracting or comb-honey 
production. The hive was set up either for comb-honey 
or extracting ; with a deep stock and shallow supers; with 
all standard stocks for extracting ; with a divisible brood 
chamber of all shallow frames for extracting; or a 
combination of shallow frames and sections. 
Room is allowed for three to four sets of sections where 
one is first worked under the stock in place of another 
body of frames. The hive proper is capable of holding 
either eleven or twelve frames, while the lower chamber 
will take as many more. For extracting, another takes 
the place of the sections, so that in all, nearly three dozen 
standard frames may be used for that purpose; or eleven 
stock frames and 24 to 30 for extracting, when these are 
shallow. 
The side walls of the body boxes are of the same depth 
as the frames, yet the space between the respective 
chambers is so carefully regulated that the distance 
between the several tiers of frames never varies. There 
are no two level surfaces drop upon each other anywhere 
about the body boxes or supers, and therefore very little 
propolisation, and less risk of crushing bees. 
Notwithstanding the open space between the lower and 
upper chamber (and the other compartments when so 
arranged), and around the same, it may be as well to meet 
any enquiry regarding this arrangement by at once stating 
that where the surplus is properly looked after, and the 
super of sections is started below with full sheets of 
foundation, and the entrance contracted meanwhile for 
the purpose of encouraging work there, no combs can be 
built outside of the chambers. 
