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passed round the frame and comb, or comb and lath, 
as the case may be, and securely tied. The board 
is now raised to the perpendicular, with the comb 
and frame upon it, when the latter is lifted by the 
ears and placed in the hive. Whilst treating the 
combs thus seriatim^ it is highly important to keep 
the brood together, and, if their previous relative 
situations be preserved, better fitting will be secured. 
The operation will be more easily performed, if a 
Fig. 68.— Simple Transferring-board and Sticks. 
A, Board— s, s. Slats ; t, Tapes. B, Sticks— jr, u\ Thin Tying Wire. 
few slats be nailed to cross-pieces, as in Fig. 68. 
The tapes [t, t) are laid in between the slats (a, a), 
ready to be brought up round the comb, before the 
latter is put into position. But those who do much 
transferring will find they are greatly facilitated by 
my transferring-board (Fig. 69). The operator places 
the apparatus upon a table — he standing opposite to 
its face A B — and now lays the comb, with its top 
towards himself, upon the sixteen rods A B C D, made 
