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from the middle, and cannot be replaced above, for 
brood already holds possession. In all subsequent 
work, the shallower frame appears to the Author to 
have every way the advantage, while he has proved it 
to be superior for wintering purposes. Air. Broughton 
Carr, whose splendid extracted honey is well known, 
is an earnest advocate of a shallow frame, which he 
has so cleverly championed, in the British Bee-keepers' 
Record^ December, 1886, and January, 1887, that all 
would do well to read his remarks. His narrow 
tiers, bin. deep, carry between thirty and forty pounds 
of honey. Shallower combs are more readily sealed, 
the different grades of honey depending upon their 
sources are more easily kept distinct, uncapping is 
more readily performed, and in extracting from virgin 
combs (of which more presently), fracture is less 
likely. Those using standard frames may adopt with- 
out prejudice tiering bodies of a less depth. 
Smoke and carbolic acid are both of service in inter- 
changing and giving new tiers, as well as in enabling 
us to harvest the honey. When the first upper storey 
is to be added, a cloth wrung out from the carbolic 
mixture (page 19), or common carbolic shaken up with 
water, and placed over the hive from which the quilt 
has just been lifted, sends the bees below; to effect 
this object we may adopt Air. Raitt’s plan of using 
stiff paper (I prefer loosely-made brown), smeared 
with crude carbolic acid. He says;* “On raising the 
paper, gradually beginning at one side, we are able, 
without interruption from a single bee, to pass a scraper 
over each top bar, removing all propolis and bits of 
* Bee-keepers' Record^ July ist, 1887, page 126. 
