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wintering and early breeding, thereby beginning tho season with 
a strong number of young bees, and thereby secure an extra 
amount of surplus honey as the result. 
The frame tops are close fitting to each other throughout their 
entire length, with large openings through the middle extending 
from end to end, with a free passage over the top of tho comb 
and below the frame-top; thus we furnish a partition or honey- 
board with large and thorough upward communication, upon 
which to place surplus honey receptacles; if boxes are used they 
are placed on tho frame-tops, tho bees having no great distance 
to travel or air space to cross to reach the boxes, do readily as- 
cend into them from any frame in the hive. To obviate the difli- 
culty of getting bees to work in an empty box after a full one has 
been removed, this hive contains a double tier of neat glass-sided 
boxes; the bees are first allowed to work in the lower boxes, and 
when nearly full, the empty boxes are placed under them, and 
the bees in their eagerness to fill the gap, commence at once in 
the empty or lower box, and in finishing the upper box, pass 
through openings in the top of the lower boxes. 
Frames may be used in the upper part of the hive instead of 
tile boxes; from these tho honey can be removed with the honey 
extractor, and the combs returned to the bees to be filled again, 
when the operation may be repeated, or it may be sold in the 
frame. 
MOTH TRAP. — By the proper use of our improved frames the 
practical bee keeper will find no trouble from tho moth worms, by 
keeping his siock strong; but to those who desire it we furnish 
hives with our moth trap. By tho use of this trap tve obtain the 
brood of tho moth before they enter the hive, which makes it the 
most complete trap ever made. 
ENTRANCE REGULATOR. — The entrance of the hive is 
regulated with a simple slide, so arranged that the entrance can 
be contracted to the admission of a single bee, thus effectually 
guarding a weak colony front robbery, and to keep out mice aud 
other vermin. Tho heat of the hive is also retained in the hive 
in winter and early spring; or the entrance may be entirely 
closed. By inverting the regulator an entrance is givon only 
large enough to allow free passage to a loaded worker bee, confin- 
ing a fertile queen to her hive. Thus arranged, bees may be left 
at any time during the swarming season without the least risk of 
