Slatted racks sit between your bottom board and brood box to give bees extra space and ventilation in the hotter months, and to keep the brood chamber warmer in the cooler months.

Learn how a beekeeper might use a slatted rack on their hives in this video.

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A little history about slatted racks: Slatted racks were first developed in 1900 by C.C. Miller, author of the classic, Fifty Years Among the Bees. They were refined in 1950 by Carl Killion, who wrote the bible on raising comb honey, Honey in the Comb. We learned about them from John Brant, one of the few successful commercial beekeepers in New York's cold Adirondack Mountain region. John swears they are absolutely essential to good wintering and swarm control in the North.