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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
When the bees, as spring advances, show signs of 
requiring increased space to store incoming honey, 
a division of zinc excluder (see Fig. 24) is introduced 
between the last brood comb and the last but one. 
Next to this are placed one or more wide frames 
(s/, Fig. 28), each containing sections similar to those 
used in supering, and beyond comes the before- 
mentioned division-board. The queen has thus no 
access to the surplus department, which, in conse- 
quence, cannot be spoiled by brood. The bees carry 
some of their pollen through the “excluder,” which 
the one ordinary frame is left to receive, while the 
honey is stored alone in the sections the wide frames 
{s/) contain. What needs be said upon comb honey 
does not properly occur here ; but, in reference to 
this arrangement, it must be imrhediately pointed out 
that, if brood has hatched, or is hatching, from the 
last frame, the comb honey will undoubtedly be 
sullied with particles from it, and these will mainly 
consist of larval excrement. A careful study of pages 
21, 172, J_8i, 241, and 243, Vol. I., will make this 
clear. The bare idea of such a contamination is 
nauseating, and it wt'll obtain, more or less, wherever 
comb honey is built on a /eve/ with the brood combs. 
Whether, apart from this consideration, the “com- 
bination ” principle may be superior, equal, or in- 
ferior to that of storefying, must at present remain, 
it being sufficient to remark that progress, with solid 
reason, is most clearly leading us to confine the lower 
part of the hive, as absolutely as possible, to brood- 
raising. 
Mr. Abbott pointed out that, by using excluder zinc 
