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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
wood runners. Both sides of the hive are movable, 
and frames can be taken out on either hand while the 
section-case is in position. The hive, which is sub- 
stantially built, on a strong stand, with stout legs, 
and covered in by a capacious and well-ventilated 
roof (r), may be considered as a type of those hives 
which accommodate both a full colony and nucleus. 
Messrs. Neighbour have recently exhibited a hive, 
called by them the “Sandringham” (Fig. 27), moderate 
in price, yet still substantial in build, and having a 
modification which may be found of considerable ser- 
vice. To this alone special attention will be called, 
since the Figure will be, in other respects, intelligible in 
the light of previous descriptions. The doubling-box 
(C), which is as nearly as possible square in plan, is 
sufficiently large to slip completely over B (the hive 
proper). To prevent it actually doing so, strips (of 
which the sections are marked .s", .y) are nailed on within 
it, about i-Jin. from its lower edges. By means of 
these the upper storey rests upon the top faces of 
the hive sides. Of course, the doubling-box would 
be too capacious to carry the frames, so two sliding 
parts {s/) are run down in grooves, as at C'. These 
reduce the width to just iq^in., and give above the 
usual frame accommodation, making the doubling-box 
into a second hive, into which standard frames fit, 
and which could be actually independently used with 
an adapted bottom board. The doubling-box is placed 
in position, and combs are added, if extracted honey 
be the object. At the close of the season, the bees 
are reduced to the limits of the hive proper, when the 
slides {s/) are drawn out, the porch is detached from 
