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strainer (S, Fig. 15) is a tin vessel constructed to fit on the 

 top of the ripener, and to which a piece of 



51. Strainer. canvas, jute, or other suitable material 

 may be attached, for the purpose of strain- 



the honey as it passes from the extractor to the ripener. 



iners are made in different patterns at varying prices. The 



shown in Fig. 18 will be found suitable. 



uncapping-knife is used for uncapping combs in frames or 

 sections prior to extracting. The pattern 

 Jncapping-knife. illustrated (K, Fig. 15) will be found 

 suitable. The " W. B. C." curved knife 

 ore convenient for use when uncapping badly-filled sec- 

 i. A large table knife may be used for uncapping, but it 

 )t at all so suitable as a special uncapping-knife. 



frame-box should be made of wood, large enough to hold at 

 least twelve frames, and fitted with a close- 

 Frame-box for fitting lid and with rails on which the 

 jring Frames for frames may be suspended. Handles 

 Extracting. should be fitted at each end for carrying 



the box, and it should be remembered that 

 f8 frames well filled with honey for extracting will weigh 

 t 60 to 70 lbs. A box of the following internal dimensions 

 d be suitable : — 25 inches long, 17 J inches broad, SJ 

 Bs deep ; a rail 25 inches by IJ inches by J inch to be nailed 

 ich side of the box, at |-inch below the upper rim. It is to 

 3membered that comb for extracting is often drawn out 

 ) than ordinary comb, so that the frames take up more 

 3 than brood frames. 



Hiving-board (Fig. 16) is a light board about 3 feet long 



by 18 inches broad, by about half-an-inch 



Hiving-board. thick. Its use is to support the sheet on 



which bees are thrown when hiving them 



tie hive entrance (76). It may be made of two nine- 



by half -inch boards, held together by cross-battens 



rneath. In the " C. D. B." hive, a slip of wood is screwed 



ader the front of the alighting-board to support the end 



3 hiving-board when in use, but it is well to nail two small 



iw slips of wood, about a foot apart, to the upper side of 



)f the 18-inch wide ends of the hiving-board, projecting 



; three inches, so that they may rest on the alighting-board 



; the hiving-board when thus fitted can readily be placed 



3ition, in front of any hive (Fig. 27). 



Q cages are used for introducing queens to stocks ; they 

 are made in several patterns, of which it 



Queen Oage. will suffice to describe two. The " Ab- 

 bott " queen cage (A, Fig. 17) consists of 



c frame to which is attached a wire net of fine mesh , the 



J forming a cage measuring about 6 inchee by 1| inch by 



