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holes above, and openings opposite the entrance, are wurse 

 than useless. 



Except in very damp locations the hive should not rest 

 more than five or six inches from the ground. Tired and 

 heavily laden bees, especially on windy days, may fail to 

 gain the hive, if it is high up, as they return from the field. 



For extracted honey, we use a second story, precisely 

 like the body of the hive, except it is a half-inch less in 

 depth; that is the sides are 95^ instead of 10 inches wide. 

 If we wish we can follow Dadant, and use two of these 

 upper stories, and tier up, in which case we would not need 

 to extract till the close of the harvest, when the honey 

 would be ripened in the hive. 



Upon the body of the hive rests the slatted honey board 

 (Fig. 64). It is seen in place (Figs. 63 and (16). This is 

 also 13 by 19^ inches. The outer rim of this valuable 

 invention and the slats are in one plane on the under sur- 

 face, and the slats are three-eighths of an inch apart, leaving 

 passages that width for the bees to pass through. On the 

 upper surface the rim projects three-eighths of an inch above 

 the slats, so that if a board be laid on the honey board its 

 lower surface will be three-eighths of an inch above the 

 slats. When the honey board is placed on the hive the 

 spaces between the slats must rest exactly over the center 

 of the top bars of the brood frames below. In using hives 

 wth the Gallup or American frames the slats of course will 

 run crosswise of the honey board, and as before must break 

 joints with the top bars of the frames. The use of this 

 prevents the bees from building brace combs above the 

 brood frames, and keeps the sections very neat. No one 

 after using this will do without it, I am sure. By tacking 

 a piece of perforated zinc (Fig. 65) on the under side of 

 this honey board it also becomes a queen excluder. It is 

 cheaper and so better to simply place a narrow strip of 

 the perforated zinc between the slats of the honey board 

 (Fig. 64). By grooving the edges of the slats it is easy 

 to insert the zinc strips when making the honey board. 

 'The honey board may be wholly of zinc with a wooden 

 rim. The objection to this is the fact that the zinc is likely 

 to sag and bind. Mr. Heddon suggests that a V shaped 



