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rackwork will then be exactly erect. The frame can 
now be safely removed. If the comb does not fill it, 
empty comb may be used to fill the vacancy, or an 
additional bar, as a false bottom, may be inserted. 
There are hooks at E and F which allow of the rack- 
work being withdrawn when out of use, and slidden 
into the tray so as to be held by the triangular eyes 
in its corners. This well-devised piece of apparatus 
is kept by Mr. Lee in two qualities, which sell respec- 
tively at 10s. 6d. and 5s.; but the latter, he says, 
with a little adaptation, will prove as useful as that 
at the higher price. 
As the operation above described is one which it 
is-not very easy to run away from when once begun, 
there is a value in Mr. Neighbour’s advice to ‘‘ have 
in readiness all the necessary appliances. These 
consist of a large knife for cutting the hive, a 
good-sized table [or the Cheshire board] on which 
to lay the brood-combs, a basin of water for washing 
off honey which may besmear the hands, tape or 
string to fasten the combs in their frames, a pair 
of honey-cutters for cutting out the combs, jars to 
hold the honey that runs out, and a feather for 
brushing off any bees that may remain.” 
Super-hives.—As the season continues to open, 
young bees will become numerous, timidly peeping 
out of the hive, and distinguishable by the lightness 
of their colour. With genial weather, wealth also 
rapidly accumulates; and the strong odour of the 
hive, and increased activity of its inmates, attest the 
growing prosperity of the family. Attention is now 
requisite to these symptoms of a rising temperature, 
