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Maa, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 207 — 
-Apiculture. 
THE WELLS SYSTEM OF BEE MANAGEMENT, 
By H. R. STEPHENS, Busy-Bee Apiary, Toowoomba. 
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oft system of bee management and of a hive which was brought to the notice 
“ih by a paper read before the British Beekeepers’ Association in 
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the pasty described, this hive is a bar-frame hive with a brood chamber double 
and ha Inary length---say, of a capacity to hold twenty standard sized frames, 
unde Ving the appearance externaily of two ordinary hives placed side by side 
"one cover, with two entrances for bees into the interior. A perforated 
tight eetight partition, placed across the centre of the brood chamber at 
the ¢ dgles to its length, divides it into two compartments, each holding half 
over th es. When the super is in use, a sheet of queen-excluder zinc is laid 
frames ; tops of the frames, over which is placed the super to hold shallow 
~that or section crates. This super is common to the divided chamber below 
is to say, it is not divided by a partition, asis the brood chamber. 
eae’ partition or dixision board in the brood chamber, which is an 
‘ne atl part of the invention, is made of a piece of clean pine of a correct 
Ya close fit, and 3-inch thick, with the edges bound with narrow strips of 
ate, creased longitudinally, and folded over the edges of the wood to 
With qj eePing by damp. It is freely perforated with holes burnt through 
hot wire ;1,-inch in diameter, care being taken that the holes are not 
