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to a ribbed bar ; but whenever I put in a bar without comb, 1 

 always use one of the improved ones. By this method, crooked 

 and irregular combs are altogether unknoT^Ti in my apiary." 



Most of our bars are made with the ridge ; but should any of our 

 customers prefer the flat ones, we keep a few to supply their 

 requirements. 



With the moveable " bar and frame hive " every comb is available 

 for extraction, and may easily be taken out of the hive ; each comb 

 being fixed within its frame, there is less disturbance to the bees 

 than if the combs were fixed to the sides, as is the case with ordinary 

 hives. A strip of wood, about J an inch wide, rests on the floor- 

 board ; in this strip are ten notches, made to receive the lower part 

 of the frames, so as to retain them in their places at equal distances 

 from each other. A difliculty is found with a well stocked hive in 

 dropping the frames into the exact notches, so that it is not 

 necessary to have these rack works always in use ; but when any 

 movement of the hive is made, it is essential to have the frames 

 firmly fixed by the aid of tMs contrivance. It is also advisable to 

 have the frames perpendicularly supported until the combs are built, 

 so in order that the frames should hang true, the hive ought to be 

 on the level. A Little inclination may be given to it from back to 

 front, causing the hive slightly to fall towards the entrance, so as to 

 allow the moisture inside the hive, caused by the exhalations of the 

 bees, to run off. 



_ " Compound Bar Frame." — In the Journal 



of Horticulture, Mr. Woodbury thus describes 

 the compound bar frame. Being his own 

 adaptation, we cannot do better than use his 

 own words. "This is a contrivance of my own, which I have 

 found very advantageous in enabling me to use frames in stock hives-' 

 and bars in supers, without forfeiting the advantages arising from the 

 unlimited interchangcability of every comb in every hive and super 

 in the apiary. Its construction will be readily understood by an 

 inspection of the annexed sketch, in which the comb bar is shown 

 slightly raised from its frame. The bar itself is 13| inches long by 

 1^ of an inch wide and | of an inch thick. When the comb bar is 

 in its place, the whole forms a frame 13 inches long by 7 J inches 

 high (inside measure), with f of an inch projection at each end, which 

 rests in its appropriate notch in either the back or front of the hive. 



