234 A Modem Bee-Farm 



for this purpose, as we desire to give the bees plenty of 

 Storage room ; while there is no great necessity that the 

 combs shall be completely sealed. 



Those hives only are suitable for extracting purposes 

 which admit of tiering up one above the other. Such 

 chambers may all be of one pattern ; though with the 

 stock hive only having standard frames, and that 

 surmountedby successive storeys of shallow frames, would 

 be better. In either case use the empty chamber below, 

 which will also to some extent prevent the queen ascend- 

 ing higher than the brood nest proper. 



Perforated zinc is frequently recommended to keep the 

 queen down, having slots /j-inch wide, which presumably 

 admit neither queen nor drones. 



Deep hives, with the extra chamber for prevention of 

 swarming, will rarely be left by the queen, and with a 

 careful and judicious adjustment of the stock- combs no 

 adapter will be needed. 



All combs arranged for extracting should stand at a set 

 distance apart all the time, as the surfaces will then be 

 finished off evenly, thus making the uncapping process 

 more rapid. It may even be an advantage to use supers 

 with dividers, as first illustrated in my pamphlet of 1886. 

 Shallow combs are filled better than deep ones, and can 

 be more readily manipulated. 



Metal Ends 



are often used on the ends of brood-frames, for spacing 

 at set distances, but there is really no need for them, and 

 in experienced hands they are only impediments. 



Where there is any diiificulty in restraining the queen, 

 as where all shallow, or all standard frames may be used, 

 and the queen excluder is objectionable, then place all 

 succeeding; sets of combs below the brood nest as recom- 



