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FITTINGS AND APPARATUS. [Ch. iv. 



§ XL BAR-FRAME HOLDER. 



It is often a great convenience to have a rest at hand 

 to lodge frames of comb on. The iUustration shows 



one that we have contrived, 

 and which will accommodate 

 twelve frames of almost any 

 size. The two broad rests on 

 the top may be set closer or 

 further apart by loosening 

 the screws which keep them 

 firm. They are easily shifted and secured again by 

 screwing up. 



This stand is light in weight, so that it can easily 

 be carried about as required. The frames of comb, with 

 bees on them just as they are, are temporarily placed on 

 the holder when an inspection of the interior of the 

 hive is needful, and the combs can be returned to the 

 hive in the same order. 



§ XIL CHESHIRE'S TRANSFERRING BOARD. 



This is a contrivance which will be found specially 

 serviceable in transferring old stocks from one hive to 

 another (Chap. V. § iii.). It consists of an inclined rest 

 for the combs, composed of laths, of wood arranged like 

 the teeth of a comb, so as to allow the honey to drain 

 into the zinc receiving-frame underneath ; it also admits 

 the ready introduction of the tape or whatever is used 



