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is abnormally small she can get through, but this is 

 not often the case. Sometimes workers will not 

 bother to get through, but will rather swarm than do 

 so. In that case, other devices can be used to urge 

 them to go through, dis a. crate of shallow frames 

 which can be placed over the excluder, and this will 

 be filled with pure white honeycomb, e is another 

 crate shewn here as empty, but it can be filled either 

 with shallow frames or sections. The latter are little 

 boxes which hold exactly one pound of honeycomb. 



A 

 Fig. 6. — Double Cone Super Clearer. 



yis the cover. The cover is now almost universally 

 used as a super clearer. It is so in the cover shewn. 

 In the front, three holes are shewn, and in each of 

 those three holes a double cone super clearer is fixed 

 as in fig. 6. There is only room for one bee to come 

 out at a time of the hole A, fig. 6. The following 

 description will show the use of the cones. Go to the 

 hive some fine morning when the super is full of 

 honeycomb. Lift up the super and place a piece of 



