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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
modifications, which will be generally accepted as 
improvements ; e.g.^ while his section-rack is equally 
suitable to two distinct sizes of sections, he has made 
the whole of the outer cases, whether for breeding or 
honey, in all respects alike, and completely convertible. 
These all have external battens, which act as hand- 
holds, and give to the sliglit |in. thick cases the 
stiffness they lack. The latter are I5iin. by iqjin. 
outside, and 5jin. deep. The eleven frames to carry 
the brood-combs have broad ends, which are only 
i-^in. in width. They, together with the extra space 
required for the outside combs, occupy the iqfin, 
between the ends of the box. Frames to carry sections 
are made to run both from side to side and from front 
to back ; each of the former takes three sections 
4 ^in. by qjin., the latter four sections 3 iin. by 
qjin., both these sizes being regarded, in Canada, as 
standards. 
We have now before us these hives, which are prac- 
tically one, and it remains to inquire what advantages 
they possess as a whole, or in their parts, and to 
seize upon any points, should such be found, which 
may be beneficially introduced into our methods of 
hive-construction. First, every British bee-keeper of 
experience must feel that Mr. Heddon’s method of 
solving the mechanical difficulty of making his body 
boxes invertible, by abandoning the Langstroth frame 
and substituting for it the wide-ended standing one, 
cannot be regarded as final ; and, indeed, Mr. Heddon 
himself refers to it in language which is manifestly 
apologetic. He says : Although these are fixed 
frames, they are readily removed, and by simply 
