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PLEASURABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



comb is built in sections, and the queen will frequently 

 leave her own domain to deposit eggs therein. 



Sections are also placed in wide frames instead of 

 crates, and were used and recommended many years 

 ago by Messrs. Abbott and Cheshire, but of late they 

 have been heard little of. Quite recently a crate of 



Fig. 4G. 



wide frames or section hangers, introduced by Mr. W. 

 Broughton Carr, has sprung into favour. These 

 hangers are cut to receive three sections. Separators 

 are then fixed to one side, and the whole set is then 

 held tightly by a spring, forced between the last 

 hanger and the crate end. 



