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low the rabbet a narrow strip of heavy tin, which shall 

 project a little above the wooden rabbet, just enough 

 to raise the top of the frame to within three-eighths of 

 an inch of the top of the hive. The advantages of these 

 are that they make a very narrow rest or support for 

 the frames and so the latter are more easily loosened, 

 and in careless hands are less apt to kill bees when put 

 into the hives. It is always easy, however, by means 

 of a chisel to loosen frames, and if we are often manip- 

 ulating our bees, as when extracting in summer, the 

 frames are easily loosened without the metal supports. 

 Some apiarists make hives without rabbets, making the 

 frames to rest on the top of the hive. I have tried such 

 hives thoroughly, and wish no more of them. Of course 

 with such hives the valuable honey.board and bee spaces 

 are impossible. 



THE FRAMES. 



The form and size of frames, though not quite as various as 

 Fig. 46. 



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the persons who use them, are still very different (Fig. 46). 

 Some prefer large frames. I first used the Quinby frame, and 



