Macks and Crates. 



149 



sheet-iron rests (Fig. 63, H, H, H), with their bent edges, 

 just raise the rack oue-fourth of an inch from the brood frames. 

 Mr. Heddon uses a similar crate without the iron stripe. 



The Wheeler rack (Fig. 64) simply holds the sections, while 

 each section is glassed separately. 



Fig. 64. 



Wheeler Rack. 



The most common crate now in use (Fig. 65) is simple and 

 cheap. Long tins (Fig. 65, b, b) extend between the rows 

 of sections, though these may be woodj, the outside sections 



Fig. 65. 



Sections in Crate. 



receive glass (Fig. 65, e, c), while a clamp (Fig. 65, a) wp.dges 

 the sections firmly in position. 



Captain Hetherington sets a rack of sections above the 

 frames, and stands sections one above the other on the side for 

 side storing. Mr. Doolittle makes a rack by placing frames, 

 such as I have described — except they are only half as high, 



