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but that's all right.) Do the same thing on the opposite side, 

 beginning at the opposite end. Make similar kerfs in each 

 end-bar, measuring from the top-bar for one end, and from 

 the bottom-bar for the other end. Of course these kerfs are 

 to be made on the inside of the end-bar, and none on the out- 

 side. Now distribute these 7 pieces at equal distances from 

 one end of the frame to the other, and if you are exact about 

 it the distance between each two will be 1 25-32 inches. Tasten 

 these 7 sticks in by driving one nail down through the top-bar 

 into each, and two nails through the bottom-bar. Before nail- 

 ing, make sure that each stick faces right, as mentioned fur- 

 ther on. Nail upon one side of your frame a piece of wire 

 cloth to cover it (17%x&y8). Have the nails not more than 

 2 inches apart all around and on each stick. I use bright wire 

 cloth, extra heavy, with meshes of the usual size in screen- 

 doors. 



You now need 40 pieces of tin, 2x1% inches to go into 

 all the saw-kerfs. Each piece of tin serves as a shelf, thus di- 

 viding the whole into 48 compartments. You will now see the 

 necessity of having the sticks face each other so as to have 

 the kerfs correspond, as mentioned a minute ago. Look out 

 for this before you nail the sticks in place. 



To close these compartments, you need 8 pieces of tin, 

 each 10 X 2 inches. That's % inch longer than the depth of 

 the frame, allowing the % to be bent over at right angles on 

 the top-bar. To hold these covers in place I use heavy pins 

 bent over. Small screw-hooks of straight pattern might do 

 better. Three are needed in each end-bar, and 6 in each up- 

 right. Of course these tin covers are put in at the top and 

 slide down. 



You will see that each of the compartment's furnishes a 

 large amount of room, 40 of them being 1 25-32 x 1^/4 x V/g, 

 and the remaining 8 being larger. This gives abundance of 

 room to put in the largest kind of queen-cell. With each cell 

 is given a ball of candy the size of a pea. 



ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF A QUEEN-NUESBBY. 



If a ripe queen-cell is given to a nucleus or colony, there 

 is no way to be sure that a queen that is all right will issue 



