BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
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are provided at one and the same time, and that with- 
out increasing the height of the hive, while this form 
secures the considerable advantage of being appli- 
cable to any less number of frames than the hive 
body carries. The ear of the frame is covered on all 
sides, and so propolisation is there impossible, although 
Fig. 38.— Details of “Holme Wood” Hive. 
A, Break Joint (Scale, 5)—/, Inside; 0, Outside of Hive; be, Bevelled Edge. 
B, Zinc Queen-excluder and Spacer— ?c&, Wood Block. C, Zinc Excluding 
Strips as used (Scale, ^)—tb, tb, Top Bars ; sh, Shoulder ; sb, sb, Side Bars ; 
ge, Queen-excluder ; I, Lug. 
it would probably be rather excessive about the zinc 
standing over the comb. 
Other interesting points in this hive will occupy 
us in their appropriate places. 
The remark — the like of which is often made — that 
shallow body-boxes permit of interchanging o?t 
7iatiiral lines'^ calls for some comment. I quite dis- 
agree with the implied statement that “ interchanging 
