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out. Windows {w) enable the manipulator to form 
a fair judgment of the progress made, so as to 
prevent useless disturbance of the bees. 
The building of brace combs between the under 
• sides of the sections and the tops of the frame of 
the hive causes some annoyance, which Mr. S. 
Simmins has endeavoured to prevent by arranging 
his sections in a crate, the bottom of which consists 
of narrow slats, with about Jin. interspaces ; the 
slats standing directly on the frames, but at right 
angles to them, in the manner of the crossbars of 
a lattice. The bees thus get entrance to the sec- 
tions — which have a bee-space beneath their bottom 
bar — through a series of openings about Jin. square. 
Building over those openings would bar their ingress ; 
and between them the space is too small, and, as 
a consequence, brace combs are not attempted. 
In the same manner, when running for extracted 
honey, the frames of the upper storey run across 
those of the body-box (see Fig. 37), and come close 
down upon them, Mr. Simmins saying that “when one 
has once tried the plan, he will never again submit 
to a clear bee-space immediately above the brood- 
frames. It is there alone that comb attachments 
are liable to be built ; but any space allowed between 
further super additions are not subject to this annoy- 
ance. In following out this plan of working for the 
past six years, I have not had a single piece of comb 
attached to the sections.’’ It is impossible to secure, 
by any one system, the minor good points of many 
different ones, but it has long been my practice to 
so place my crates that the section combs run across 
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