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purpose, as we desire to give the bees plenty of storage 

 room. 



Those hives only are suitable for extracting purposes 

 which admit of tiering up one above the other. Such 

 chambers may all be of one pattern ; though with the stock 

 hive only having standard frames, and that surmounted by 

 successive stories of shallow frames, would be better. In 

 either case use the empty chamber below, which will also to 

 some extent prevent the queen ascending higher than the 

 brood nest proper. 



Perforated zinc is- frequently recommended to keep the_ 

 queen down, having slots g^^^-inch wide, which presui; 

 ably admit neither queen nor drones. 



Deep hives, with- the extra chamber for prevention q£,^ — 

 swarming, will rarely be left by the queen, and with the sh^Mow 

 extracting super, having its frames placeji-at_ligb*-OTgles to 

 those below, no adapter is needed. 



All combs arranged for extracting should stand at a set 

 distance apart all the time, as the surfaces will then be finished 

 off evenly, thus making the uncapping process more rapid. 

 Shallow combs are filled better than deep ones, and can be. 

 more readily manipulated. 



Metal ends are used w,here frames are spaced at set 

 distances, but none such are in use for extracting purposes, as 

 then the frames should be farther apart — about J-inch more 

 than usual. 



Where there is any difficulty in restraining the queen, as 

 where all shallow, or all standard frames may be used, if the 

 queen excluder is objectionable, tlien place all succeeding sets 

 of combs below the brood nest as recommended in Non-Swarm-^ 

 ing pamphlet. 



Mr. Howard has designed single strips of excluder slots 

 with plain f-inch sides, which can be inserted between the 

 frame bars, thus spacing the frames at the same time, and 

 being adapted to few or many frames. 



