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THE BOOK OF BEE-KEEPING. 



Skep Rack with Roof, for use in Straw Skep. 



the old-fashioned bee-keeping becomes merged into the modem — 

 a sort of connecting link — we illustrate a super adapted to skeps 

 for the production of comb honey in a form equal to that pro- 

 duced in a bar-frame hive. For this rack we took First Prize at 

 the Windsor Show of the Berks Bee-keepers' Association, 1887. 



With a straw skep 

 having only a hole in 

 the top, an ordinary 

 rack of " sections " 

 (par. 52) could not 

 be used ; therefore, 

 it has a bottom (not 

 shown in the en- 

 graving), with a hole 

 to correspond to the 

 one in the skep. It 

 also has a roof (r), 

 to protect the sec- 

 tions from the 

 weather. We took 

 forty-nine lib. sec- 

 tions from one skep 

 by means of these 

 — using two," tiered" 

 up (see paragraph on 

 " Tiering "). The arrangement of sections in it is precisely 

 the same as in a rack for a frame-hive. 



51. Frame Hive Super. — The accompanying illustration 



will give a good idea as 

 to the form adopted in a 

 super, or, as it is called, 

 a rack or crate, for a bar- 

 frame hive. This consists 

 of a square box without 

 top or bottom, and of 

 sufficient size to accom- 

 modate twenty-one lib. 

 sections (T, T, T). A 

 space of iin. between the 

 bottom of the sections 

 and the top bar of the 

 frames, for the passage 

 of the bees, is called the 

 " bee - space " ; if this 

 space is more than that 

 measurement, the bees 

 will build combs between, and so very firmly fix the sections to the 

 tops of the frames, and if it is less, they will glue them with 



Sectional Supers on Rack or Crate, with 

 fall Over, Spring, Sections, and Separators, 



