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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



house. It is 20 x 15 feet, and the floor timbers are blocked up 

 with stones so that it will sustain a great weight without break- 

 ing. 



When the supers of sections are taken in, they are piled up 

 near the center of the room with no very great precision. 



Fig. IIS — Pile of Stories. 



usually being piled crosswise, that is, each super placed across 

 the one under it, for the double purpose of ventilation and to 

 make it easier 1o lift the supers off the pile than they would be 

 if ])iled straight and stuck together with bee glue. 



PDSH-BOARD. 



Perhaps the sections will be taken out of the supers the 

 next daj', possibly not for a week or more. A push-board 



