HIVES. 



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hives in which the tops of the frames are level with 

 the tops of the hive sides. It allows of quick and 

 secure packing of quilts, and it also raises a shallow 

 roof sufficiently to allow of a feeder being placed 

 above the frames. The hft for this hive is simply a 

 super without the bars, which may be used whenever 

 required. 



Bars. As the combs in both brood-chamber and 



Fig. 12. 



supers are, when built, to be attached to the front and 

 back walls, bars, not frames, as in the movable-comb 

 hive, are provided. 



The bars are 14^ inches long, 1^ inches wide, and 

 f inch thick. In the centre of the bar, and running 

 nearly from end to end, is a saw-cut to receive the 

 sheet of foundation. The ends of the bars only are 

 1-^ inch wide, and they fit close together so that the 

 combs when built will be the correct distance apart, 



