556 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Dec., 1901. 
Apiculture. 
A SIMPLE FIXED FRAME AND AN IMPROVED BOTTOM 
BOARD. 
By H. R. STEPHENS, Toowoomba Apiaries. 
The frame here deseribed may be said to occupy a position, as regards 
merit, between the ordinary plain frame and the Hofman, which latter is the 
style of fixed frame now generally used. The means adopted to make the 
Rusel frame self-spacing, and to obtain the projections on the end bars neces- 
sary for that purpose, are to make two saw cuts down an ordinary end bar 
about three-quarters of its length and spread the two outside strips so as to 
grip the top bar, the centre strip being driven into a five-sixteenth hole bored in 
the top bar. The sketch will explain. : 
tty Gove cure 
As regards the bottom board of a beehive, your readers are perhaps aware 
that the ordinary form consists of a plain board cleated at each end, and with 
two strips nailed on the side edges to raise the body of the hive and thus form 
the entrance for bees. In Rusel’s Improved Bottom Board, the plan is 
generally the same, with the exception of about 8 inches at the front, where the 
board is another bee-space lower, making the whole entrance $-inch deep, and 
dividing this opening midway is a piece of bee zine, which slides in grooves, and 
when pushed in forms a Queen and Drone Excluder, and when drawn out an 
inch or so acts as an ordinary entrance for bees. 
SPRAYING BEES TO HIVE THEM. 
A correspondent of Garden and Field writes to that journal :— 
I do not know a great deal about bees practically, but I have been stung 
by them since I was a boy, and that is a long time ago. ‘The first swarm I 
helped to take was from a white gum-tree we had cut down. I have hived a 
