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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
(as at B, Fig. 22) ; or it will have to be substituted 
by one which either admits of being readily fixed, so 
that inversion of the hive shall not displace it (as in 
the Heddon, Fig. 34), or of standing equally well 
either way up, like the Hetherington-Quinby frame 
(/r. Fig. 31) — i.e., in other words, be a species, of 
which the Huber standing frame is the generic type. 
In Quinby's adaptation of Huberts idea the ends are 
wide [ws, ws, A, Fig. 30), equalling the thickness of the 
comb and the interspace together, while the top and 
Fig. 30.— Details of Quenby’s Hive. 
A, Quinby Frame (Scale, y\)— T op Bar ; us, us, Wide Sides ; h. Hook ; st. 
Stiffening Piece. B, End Board (Scale, j\)—sp. Sunk Panel ; h. Hook. C, Corner 
of Fi-ame, &c. (Scale, t)— Bottom Board ; gr. Groove ; ip, ip. Iron Plate ; 
h. Hook ; st. Stiffening Piece ; tvs. Wide Side. 
bottom bars are placed each Jin. from the ends of the 
sides, and are only Jin. wide. Thus, since neither 
top bars nor bottom bars meet when the frames are 
pressed up together, the contact-surface is reduced 
to one-half of that of the Huber frame, while the 
scraping up of bees on the floor-board is entirely pre- 
vented, by permitting to them passage-way beneath 
the bottom bar. Hives made of somewhat similar 
frames, placed side by side, were used by an Italian 
apiarian, from whom they have been often named 
