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adapter perforated all over with circular holes too narrow 

 to admit the queen or drones. The whole space over the 

 frames is then covered with our small sectional supers 

 (Chap. IV. § vi.), which, by means of the numerous 

 perforations, are completely seasoned to the bees' taste 

 with the same scent as the hive itself. The hive with 

 its cover is complete without any further protection from 

 the weather, and it carries its own stand. It was very 

 highly commended at the Alexandra Palace Bee Show. 



§ XIII. CHESHIRE'S FRAME HIVE. 



In its general principles and inner structure this hive 

 differs very little from the one last described, with 

 which in outward appearance it is still more closely 

 identical ; but the walls of the stock hive, when made 

 of wood (for they can also be had in straw, if the 

 apiarian so prefers) are constructed double, with an air- 

 space between, with a view to modifying the variations 

 of temperature. The upper part of the outer wood- 

 work is a cover to the supers, and opens on a hinge at 

 one side. Within are two of Lee's bar supers, placed 

 one upon the other, the upper of which is to be first 

 supplied, and the other added from beneath when the 

 first is partly filled. 



The stock hive usually contains eleven of the regular- 

 sized Woodbury frames, besijies the dummy. Admission 

 is given to the super by means of slits in the sides of 

 two of the five planks constituting the crown-board, and 



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