§ X.] NEIGHBOURS' NEJV FRAME HIVE. 141 



by a zinc slide running in an opening cut out of the 

 wood, and in others is covered by a wooden block. In 

 the more highly finished hives two long openings are cut 

 for admitting bees to the super. Two slides for each 

 opening are supplied — one pair being of plain zinc for 

 closing them entirely, the other with slits cut of three- 

 sixteenths of an inch in width for the purpose of queen- 

 preventers (see Chap. IV. § xvii.). The supers are 

 similar, but not so deep, and have eight frames instead 

 of nine ; they are, however, frames, and not mere bars 

 as ordinarily. The sides and top axt oi glass, with baize, 

 lined shutters. 



A hive intermediate between this and the Philadelphia 

 (§ xii.), and which may be called "The Cottager's 

 Improved Frame Hive," is shown inside the opened 

 cover on page 179. It has a straw crown-board and a 

 larger window, and is designed to admit a zinc adapter 

 with queen-preventing perforations ; in other respects it 

 is identical with the above hive. 



2. Straw. — The figure overleaf exhibits "Neigh- 

 bours' New Straw Frame Hive," with super attached. 

 It is of exactly the same size and construction as the 

 foregoing. There is a straw crown-board with feeding- 

 hole in the centre, and two slits of zinc with queen- 

 preventing openings as above. The supeirs of the 

 straw hive are made of its own material, but have three 

 windows instead of one. The advantages of straw for 

 hives are described under the Woodbury straw hive, above. 



