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will involve the use of one or two frames less 
than what are required for the same width in the 
latter; and if the above artistic effect is aimed at, then 
one after another of the bars or frames can be removed 
when partly full, or the super itself might even be 
lessened by a process to be now explained. In all the 
better class of frame hives made by the regular hive- 
makers it is now usual to insert in the stock-hive 
either one or two of what are known as dummy frames, 
which consist of two thin boards glued together in 
cross directions as to the grain, and affixed under- 
neath bars like the ordinary ones, but usually a little 
narrower. They are thus of the same size as the 
other frames, and lft in and out like them; being 
of great convenience for either curtailing the space 
of a hive too roomy for its existing stock, or, 
still more, for giving facility to the removal of the 
genuine frames by allowing them to be shifted further 
apart after a dummy hag been first extracted. Now 
we have never yet heard of the adoption of these 
devices in supers; but for the performance of the 
above experiment they seem to offer the simplest of all 
means. Von Berlepsch says that by the pro- 
cess in question the combs may be brought up to a 
thickness of four inches. 
The crown-board—also called the honey-board 
when intended for the reception of supers, though the 
latter name may in other instances refer to some 
forms of adapting-boards—should be three-quarters 
of an inch thick, and project all round for a dis- 
tance of half an inch. It may either be fastened 
down by screws—which My. Hibberd hag well re- 
