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Bee-keeping for Beginners. 



was the origin of the bar-frame hive, which has more 

 than answered all expectations. By referring to 

 fig. 4 a very fair idea of the mysteries of the bar- 

 frame hive may be obtained. Each part is shewn 

 separately, but when in use, all these fit down to- 

 gether. The four legs are shown at « ; <^ is the floor- 

 board ; c is the brood chamber. This chamber is 

 reserved for the use of the queen bee to lay her eggs 

 and hatch the brood. There is a porch in front, which 



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Fig. 5. — Queen Excluder. 



is very useful to shade the bees and throw off the rain. 

 Two strips of wood are shown at c which serve to con- 

 tract the entrance at certain seasons of the year, and 

 to prevent robbing. The queen can be confined to the 

 brood chamber by the use of a piece of excluder zinc 

 (fig. 5). This is laid across the tops of the frames 

 in the brood chamber c. The holes are made so 

 exact that the queen cannot (as a rule) pass through 

 them, but the workers can do so easily. If the queen 



