Racks and Orates. 



149 



sheet-iron rests (Fig. 63, H, H, E), -with their bent edges, 

 just raise the rack one-fourth of an inch from the brood frames. 

 Mr. Heddon uses a similar crate -without the iron strips. 



The Wheeler rack (Fig. 64; simply holds the sections, -while 

 each section is glassed separately. 



Fig. 64. 



Wheeler Rack. 



The most common crate no-w in use (Fig. 65) is simple and 

 cheap. Long tins (Fig. 65, b, 6) extend bet-ween the ro-ws 

 of sections, though these may be wood,, the outside sections 



C-ate. 



receive glass (Fig. 65, c, e), -whilei a clamp (Fig. 65, a) wedges 

 the sections firmly in position. 



Captain Hetherington sets a rack of sections above the 

 frames, and stands sections one above the other on the side for 

 side storing. Mr. Doolittle makes a rack by placing frames, 

 such as I have described — except they are only half as high. 



