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comes the crown-board with its slides; then an 
adapting-board, for those who 
care to resort to such an 
accessory; next the extra super, 
marked 3; and lastly, the first 
super, or box No. 2. Mr. 
Taylor’s top super was fitted 
with movable bars and win- 
dows like the stock-hive, but 
his lower super (No. 8) differed 
in the former respect, for the 
bars exhibited in the figure are 
fixed, or in other words, are 
simply a grated entrance to 
the other super, which, though 
applied first, will always stand 
uppermost. The bars in supers 
are not in every case made to 
remove, but it is desirable that 
they should be so (and if frames 
are added, so much the better), 
and for this purpose the top of 
the super must itself be mov- 
abie like the crown-board of the 
stock-hive. Supers of this 
class, like all others that we have spoken of, are, 
it need hardly be said, open at the bottom; they 
consequently will admit of the adapting-board men- 
tioned on page 57, if such is desired. Both crown- 
board and adapter may be retained during the 
honey season, in adherence to the general line 
of Mr. Taylor’s instructions. But in the case of the 
