This stand is light in weight, so that it can easily be carried about as required. The frames of comb, with bees on them just as they are, are temporarily placed on the holder when an inspection of the interior of the hive is needful, and the combs can be returned to the hive in the same order. § XII. CHESHIRE'S TRANSFERRING BOARD. This is a contrivance which will be found specially serviceable in transferring old stocks from one hive to another (Chap. V. § iii.). It consists of an inclined rest for the combs, composed of laths, of wood arranged like the teeth of a comb, so as to allow the honey to drain into the zinc receiving-frame underneath; it also admits the ready introduction of the tape or whatever is used for tying and fixing the combs in the new frame. The operator should place the board upon a table so that its front, or the upper edges of the inclined laths, face him as he stands. § XIII. HONEY-CUTTERS. [Illustration] Honey-cutters are used for removing comb from boxes and glasses without damaging it. The flat-bladed knife is for disconnecting the combs from the sides; the hook-shaped one is to be applied to the top or horizontal part of the box or glass. We have recently introduced a knife with both these blades, one respectively at each end. § XIV. THE HONEY-EXTRACTOR. The first notion of extracting honey from the combs by centrifugal motion was the result of an accident. A son of Major von Hruschka, a bee-keeper in Germany, tied a piece of honeycomb to a string, and in play whirled it round the inside of a pail. Finding that the honey was ejected and the cells of the comb left dry, the idea was suggested to Herr von Hruschka of constructing a machine for the purpose, and this he soon afterwards did. The first honey-extractor was a wooden vessel with something like a broomstick working on a pivot in the centre; to this axle, provision was made for attaching a framework to carry the combs, and the centrifugal motion was obtained by winding coils of string round the upper part of the revolving shaft, which was thus put in motion by pulling the string sharply in the way a boy's humming-top is made to spin round. [Illustration]