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holes above, and openings opposite the entrance, are worse 
than useless. “38 
Except in very damp locations the hive should not rest 
more than five or six inches from the ground. Tired and 
heavily laden bees, especially on windy days, may fail to 
gain the hive, if itis high up, as they return from the field. 
For extracted honey, we use.a second story, precisely 
like the body of the hive, except it is a half-inch less in 
depth; that is the sides are 91% instead of 10 inches wide. 
If we wish we can follow Dadant, and use two of these 
upper stories, and tier up, in which case we would not need 
to extract till the close of the harvest, when the honey 
would be ripened in the hive. 
Upon the body of the hive rests the slatted honey board 
(Fig. 64). It is‘seen in place (Figs. 63 and 66). This is 
also 13 by 19% inches. The outer rim of this valuable 
invention and the slats are in one plane on the under sur- 
face, and the slats are three-eighths of an inch apart, leaving 
passages that width for the bees to pass through. On the 
upper surface the rim projects three-eighths of an inch above 
the slats, so that if a board be laid on the honey board its 
lower surface will be three-eighths of an inch above the 
slats.) When the honey board is placed on the hive the 
spaces between the slats must rest exactly over the center 
of the top bars of the brood frames below. In using hives 
with the Gallup or American frames the slats of course will 
run crosswise of the honey board, and as before must break 
joints with the top bars of the frames. The use of this 
prevents the bees from building brace combs above the 
brood frames, and keeps the sections very neat. No one 
after using this will do without it, I am sure. By tacking 
a piece of perforated zinc (Fig. 65) on the under side of 
this honey hoard it also becomes a queen excluder. It is 
cheaper and so better to simply place a narrow strip of 
the perforated zinc between the slats of the honey board 
(Fig. 64). By grooving the edges of the slats it is easy 
to insert the zinc strips when making the honey board. 
The honey board may be wholly of zinc with a wooden 
rim. The objection to this is the fact that the zinc is likely 
to sag and bind. Mr. Heddon suggests that a V shaped 
