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below the upper rim. It is to be remembered that comb for 
extracting is often drawn out more than ordinary comb, so that 
the frames take up more space than brood frames. 
The hiving-board (Fig. 16) is a light board about 8 feet long 
by 18 inches broad, by about half an inch 
54. Hiving-board. thick. Its use is to support the sheet on 
which bees are thrown when hiving them 
by the hive entrance (76). It may be made of two nine-inch by 
half-inch boards, held together by cross-battens underneath. 
In the “C. D. B.” hive, a slip of wood is screwed on under 
the front of the alighting-board to support the end of the hiving- 
board when in use, but it is well to nail two small narrow slips 
of wood, about a foot apart, to the upper side of one of the 
18-inch wide ends of the hiving-board, projecting about three 
inches, so that they may rest on thé alighting-board (20); the 
hiving-board when thus fitted can readily be placed in position, 
in front of any hive (Fig. 29). 
Queen cages are used for introducing queens to stocks; they 
are made in several patterns, of which it 
55. Queen Cage. will suffice to describe two. The “ Ab- 
bot” queen cage (A, Fig. 17) consists of 
a zinc frame to which is attached a wire net of fine mesh, the 
whole forming a cage measuring about 6 inches by 14 inch by 
zs inch; one edge of the cage is open for its full length, leaving 
an aperture 6 inches by 35 inch; a movable wire which passes 
through the zinc top and bottom of the cage, and is thus held in 
position in the centre of the aperture, can be withdrawn so 
as to permit the imprisoned queen to pass out of the cage; the 
flanged top of the cage permits of its being suspended between 
two adjoining frames. The ‘“‘ Dome” cage consists of a metal 
circular rim about 14 inches in diameter, covered with a dome- 
shaped roof of fine meshed netting ; when in use the metal rim 
is pressed to its full depth into the honey comb. This type of 
cage is recommended ; the bees can release the queen by eating 
away the honey comb, thus sometimes saving the life of a 
queen that has been overlooked. 
The ‘‘ Abbott”? swarm-box (Fig. 18) is intended for forward- 
ing bees by parcel post. It is a light box 
56. Swarm-box. made of very thin wood, covered with 
canvas, and measuring about 18 inches 
long by 9 inches broad by 9 inches deep; the detachable lid 
consists of a light wooden frame sheeted with perforated zinc ; 
it rests on slips tacked to the sides and ends of the box; two 
light movable skeleton frames, to each of which a piece of coarse 
canvas is attached, are fitted into position about 3 inches 
apart, as shown in the illustration; a slip of wood is wedged 
between them to spring them apart. The bees cluster on the 
canvas frames. The same style of box may be made of light 
wood; and instead of canvas sheeted frames, strips of canvas, 
