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§ II. NEIGHBOURS' CRYSTAL PALACE SKEP. 



This hive (so styled from its obtaining a prize at the 

 Crystal Palace Show in 1875) differs from the foregoing 

 in being larger, and in 

 having a thicker floor- 

 board, a hooped fitting 

 at the base, a window in 

 the super, and a movable 

 cap as a finish to either 

 super or stock hive, ac- 

 cording as the former is 

 in use or not. The out- 

 side dimensions of the 

 lower hive are seven- 

 teen inches diameter by 

 nine in depth, and of 

 the super thirteen inches 

 by five. 



When there is a hole 

 in the centre on top of 

 the stock hive, as is the 

 case here, there is a possibility of the queen ascending 

 and depositing eggs in the super. To check such a 

 mishap, a queen and drone preventer can be applied, 

 which is a contrivance so arranged as to admit the pan- 

 sage of nothing larger than a worker (Chap. IV. § xvii.). 



