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January 22, 2010

Commercial Hive, British Standard

External dimension – 18 5/16” square Brood body depth – 10 ½” Super depth – 6 3/8” The brood area is 3000 sq. ins. No. of worker cells 70,500 Bottom Bee Space Frames sizes. Top Bars – 17 ¼” long Bottom bars – 16” long Deep side bars – 10” long Shallow side bars – 6” long Foundation sizes Deep – 15 7/16” x 9 ½” Shallow – 15 7/16” x 5 ½” How many frames in each box: 11 Hoffman frames in either a brood body or super. 10 Manley frames in the super.

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