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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
frames, squeezing them together until they hold their 
position securely when the body-box is inverted. 
The stand (s^, Fig. 33) needs little explanation. 
The cleats of the bottom board touch its end pieces 
a trifle before the bottom board itself touches the 
side pieces, such a bearing causing the weight of 
the hive to assist the cleats in keeping the bottom 
board perfectly straight. 
The honey-board (/id) Mr. Heddon arranges on the 
“ break-joint ” principle — its slats standing over the 
interspaces between the frames of the body-box — with 
the object of preventing the building of brace combs, 
as they are termed — i.e., strips and irregular extensions 
Fig. 35.— Part of Queex-excluding Hoxey-board (Scale, i). 
si, si, Slats ; qe, qe. Queen-excluder Zinc. 
of comb, introduced between upper and lower frames, 
or frames and section-boxes, filling the bee-space, 
and attaching together, according to bee notions of 
security, parts that the bee-keeper desires to remain 
separate. 
The frame which holds the honey-board together 
extends in thickness -^in. both above and below the 
slats, thus keeping the half bee-space so characteristic 
of the Heddon system. The honey-board, as supplied, 
has no further addition, but the inventor recommends, 
and Mr. Jones actually places, queen-excluder zinc 
(qe, Fig. 35) between the slats, which have saw kerfs 
