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which case we would not need to extract until the close of the 

 harvest, when the honey would be ripened in the hive. 



Upon the body of the hive rests the slatted honey-board 

 (Fig. 91). It is seen in place (Figs. 89 and 93). This is also 13 

 by 19J^ inches. The outer rim of this valuable invention and 

 the slats are in one plane on the under surface, and the slats 

 are three-eighths of an inch apart, leaving passages that width 

 for the bees to pass through. On the upper surface the 

 rim projects three-eighths of an inch above the slats, so that if 

 a board be laid on the honey-board its lower surface will be 

 three-eighths of an inch above the slats. When the honey- 

 board is placed on the hive, the spaces between the slats must 

 rest exactly over the center of the top-bars of the brood-frames 

 below. In using hives with the Gallup or American frames 

 the slats of course will run crosswise of the honey-board, and 

 as before must break joints with the top-bars of the frames. 



Fig. 92. 



Plain Divmmi-Board. Perforated-ZlHC Pimdon-Soard. 

 From P. A. Jcmes. 



The use of this prevents the bees from building brace-combs 

 above the brood-frames, and keeps the sections very neat. No 

 one after using this will do without it, I am sure. By tacking 

 a piece of perforated-zinc (Fig. 92) on the under side of this 

 honey-board it also becomes a queen-excluder. The grooves 

 in the zinc must be very exact. They are .165 of an inch wide. 

 It is cheaper, and so better, simply to place a narrow strip of 

 the perforated-zinc between the slats of the honey-board (Fig. 



