58 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
gerve the board from lateral movement, while the 
weight of the super, or in its absence the cover 
(for which see next section), will hold it firmly 
down. The board can, if pre- 
ferred, be cut in three slits as 
in the annexed figure, the three 
being contrived to admit of either 
| three bell-glasses or one of the 
wider kind introduced by our 
author, and known as Taylor’s 
classes. The dotted circles show 
the double adaptation thus designed. When these 
are in use they should be covered by a second 
skep hive, in addition to the cover already hinted 
at, which will now be placed over all. The slits 
in the board may be an inch and a quarter or more 
across in the widest part and taper into a point, 
their length being two inches. ‘hree*zine slides or 
dividers move in grooves cut two inches wide 
from the edge of the board and over the holes. 
If any interstices are left after fitting the wood- 
work into the straw, these can be stopped by the 
insertion of a bit of tea-lead, “‘a store of which,” 
says Mr. Golding, ‘“‘should be kept for such pur- 
poses.” 
Those who would wish for a double adapter to 
the hive last described, would similarly desire a 
single one to place upon the crown-hoard of that 
now under notice. Expert apiculturists would laugh 
at either idea; but Mr. Taylor, in noting the con- 
venience of such double boards, had view mainly to 
beginners of a nervous temperament, who desired, 
