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the bottom bars, though the top and side pieces are close to- 

 gether. The sections are of such a size (Fig. 50, JT) that 

 four, or six, or nine, etc., will just fill one of the large frames. 

 Nailed to one side of each large frame are two tin strips 

 (Pig. 50, t, f) as long as the frame, and as wide into one inch 

 as are the sections. These are tacked half an inch from the 

 top and the bottom of the large frames, and so are opposite 

 the sections, thus permitting the bees to pass readily from 

 one tier of sections to another, as do the narrower top and 



Fig. 49. 



bootom-bars of the sections, from those below to those above. 

 I learned of such an arrangement of sections from A. I. Root. 

 Captain Hetherington tells me that Mr. Quinby used them 

 years ago. The tin arrangement, though unlike Mr. Wheeler's 

 (Fig. 52, M), would be readily suggested by it. It is more 

 trouble to' make these frames if we have the tins set in so as 

 just to come flush with the edge of the end-bars of the 

 frames, but then the frames would hang close together, and 

 would not be so stuck together with propolis. These may be 

 hung in the second story of a two-story hive, and just -so 

 many as to fill the same — my hives will take nine — or they 

 can be put below, beside the brood-combs. Mr. Doolittle, in 

 case he hangs these below, inserts a perforated division-board. 



