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board should be a din. below the top edge of the case. Three 
strips of stout tin, or, what would be better, thin galvanised 
iron, 144in. long by lin. wide, are now required ; down the 
centre of each punch a few holes, and nail them along the 
bottom edges of the divisions, allowing the strips to project a 
quarter of an inch on each side ; these projections are to rest the 
sections on. Two more strips are required for the ends of the 
case, which must be bent along their length, so that they may 
be tacked on in their proper places, allowing only din. to 
stand out as a support for the sections. The case is now com- 
plete. 
Each compartment will take eight 1?in. sections or seven — 
2in. ones, and just leave sufficient space for blocking them off 
with a thin piece of wood. If separators are to be used one 
will be required for each section. When the honey-board is 
placed on the lower frames, and the case or half-story put on 
in the usual way, there will be the requisite space, 2ths of an 
inch, from the frames to the board, and the same from the 
board to the bottom of sections. The 2in. pieces across the 
honey-board might be put on so as to come directly under the 
divisions of the case ; or, instead of the wood, strips of tin 
could be tacked across the slats; this would leave free com- 
munication all over the honey-board. To use honey-boards 
with our extracting hives we would have to make the boards 
larger, so that the outside frame could rest on the edges of the 
hive and support the super to give the necessary bee-spaces. 
PLXIOM, 
‘““BEES MAY ALWAYS BE MADE PEACEABLE BY INDUCING THEM 10 
ACCEPT OF LIQUID SWEETS.” Langstroth 
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