HIVES FOR BEE-KEEPERS, 
its place, where it is held by two thumbscrews, and 
fixed, upside down, upon the doubling-box, which is 
now inverted, and slipped over the hive, as at B', C', 
until the aforesaid internal strips arrest its further 
descent. Instead, then, of the doubling-box becoming 
an extra article of bee furniture, to be housed during 
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Fig. 27.— Section and Details of Sandringham Hive (Scale, ^). 
A, A', Stand; B, B', Hive Body; C, C', Doubling-box; D, D', Roof; e, e', 
Entrance ; p, p', Porch ; c, c, Comb.s ; a, a, a', Dead Air Space ; to, lop Bar, 
g, q. Quilt ; al, si, Slide-piece ; gr. Groove ; s, s, s, Stops ; v, v', Ventilator. 
the winter, it does duty in affording the colony addi- 
tional protection in the time of need, the roof (D ), 
placed over all, giving storage space for the removed 
sliding pieces. If the hive be run for comb honey, 
section racks (see Fig. i8), instead of frames, are 
placed in the upper storey, in which the sliding 
parts are not then required. 
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