FRAME HIVES, 117 
cover on page 121). This may be called a series 
of boxes, each measuring seven inches by four by 
two, and designed so as to enable any single portion 
to be removed and replaced as fast ag it becomes 
filed with honey; of which it will contain about two 
pounds. In the figure there are shown fourteen of 
these boxes, but the above hive will take eighteen. 
There are glass sides to those that stand at 
the ends, but beyond this there is no manner of 
partition between them, so that the whole fourteen 
sections form practically two supers standing side by 
side. That side of each section which rests upon 
the adapter is necessarily cut down considerably in 
width, so as to afford space for the free admission of 
the bees from below. The saw cut in the crown is 
for the insertion of wax strips, so that the boxes them- 
selves thus constitute their own bars. ‘‘It is desir- 
able,” says Mr. A. Neighbour, ‘“‘to provide against the 
admission of cold through the numerous interstices by 
keeping a warm woollen covering on the top and 
