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immediately under the projection of the rim, and a 
space left between the cover and the 
crown of the hive, for the passage 
= of air; or a small worked mat, of 
straw bands, may be interposed [as 
mentioned just above]. 
“A modification of the last-deseribed zinc cover 
[ have used satisfactorily for the protecting of flat 
straw depriving hives requiring more than one story 
in height. Immediately upon the stock-hive is in- 
troduced what, for want of a more distinctive term, 
I call a shade, encircling the upper edge, as just 
detailed, with the same kind of descending rim and 
air-holes. It is made of moderately thick sheet 
zinc, cut of such exterior diamcter as to leave a 
projection round the outer edge of the hive of three 
to four inches, and turned a little downwards over 
stout wire, to throw off wet. In the centre of the 
shade is a circular opening, which, if required, may 
be of the same diameter as the interior of the stock- 
hive, and round it is a raised rim, standing up not 
less than half an inch. Within this central opening 
it is intended to place the super, of whatever kind 
it may be. A reference to what has becn said on a 
previous page* will show the construction of the 
shade, the upright rim of which keeps the super in 
its place. On the top of this upper hive a second 
* The passage in question (which does not occur in its old form 
in this edition) remarixed that. supers oug t to be covered even when 
within a bee-house, and that the upper hive, as here represented, was 
thus aself a cover, the super being a smaller straw cylinder within, and, 
as just explained, standing (upon the crown) inside the upturn-d rim 
of the shide. The closing paragraph of this section will make the 
arrangement still clearer. 
