68 PLEASURABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



Standard, frames of various sizes were in use. The 

 inconvenience of so many different sized frames in- 

 duced the Committee of the British Bee-keepers' 

 Association, in the interest of bee-culture, to consider 

 and resolve upon the most convenient sized frame for 

 general use. 



The following Committee was appointed : Messrs. 

 C. N. Abbott, T. W. Cowan, P. Cheshire, J. G. 

 Desborough, J. M. Hooker, A. Neighbour, Eevs. G. 

 Eaynor and F. T. Scott, and the result of their 

 deliberations was that the frame should be 14 x 8^ 

 outside measure, the top bar being 17 inches, thus 

 extending beyond the sides at each end and affording, 

 by the projection, an easy means of lifting the frame. 

 The width, | inch, and the thickness of the wood as 

 follows : top bar f , side-bars J inch, and bottom bar 

 i inch. The advantage of a standard frame cannot 

 well be over-estimated, for by its use stocks may be 

 quickly changed without trouble or inconvenience into 

 new or clean hives, frames of honey or brood may be 

 given to stocks requiring such help, and, above all, 

 stocks on frames, particularly if the foundation has 

 been wired, may be sent from one apiary to another or 

 to any part of the country. 



Shallow frames. In addition to the standard frame, 

 which should be used exclusively as a brood frame, 

 a shallow frame, b^ inches deep, really the standard 

 frame 3 inches less in depth, as recommended and first 

 used by Mr. W. Broughton Carr, is now extensively 

 used in most apiaries on stocks that are worked for 

 extracted honey. Mr. Carr first advised that two sets 

 of shallow frames should constitute the brood-chamber, 



