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220 AUSTRALIAN BEE LORE AND BEE CULTURE. 



If it is intended to dress the timber for the hives (planed 

 wood always takes the paint better than rough), do so in the full 

 length. When the four ends have been cut off the 12 feet board 

 there will be a little less than 7 feet left ; from this cut the four 

 sides. Allowing for saw-cuts, the waste from the full-length board 

 will be found to be next to nothing. 



Fixed gauges for making the various parts of the hive will 

 be found very useful tools. 



Care is the only necessary trait required in putting a hive 

 together. Take nothing for granted ; see that every piece of wood 

 is cut to the proper size ; all the corners right angles ; and when 

 putting the hive together, have a bar frame handy, and see that 

 you have proper bee-space allowed in every place that has been 

 advised. In making a hive, kee^p this last paragraph before you, 

 and note carefully its axioms. 



THE LANGSTROTH HIVE— ITS FITTINGS. 



On other pages there are illustrations — Bee hive and its 

 fittings, the details of the hive is (also given ; therefore the following 

 must be read in connection therewith. 



In looking at the illustration it will be seen that it is numbered 

 from 1 to 13, No. 1 being a complete 10-frame Langs^troth hive in 

 working order. 



2. The hrood chamber with four full-sized frames, and the 

 dummy or division board with two frames on either side of it. 



3. Half-sized super, showing five shallow frames, a shallow 

 dummy, and a cradle or section-holder containing four 1-lb. sec- 

 tions. Bear in mind, the half-sized super is half only in depth — 

 that is 4| inches — sufficient to carry the shallow frame and to allow 

 bee space between it and the top-bar of the brood chamber. 



4. The roof or cover. — In this case the roof is a gable-end, 

 having a ventilator in either gable formed of perforated zinc. 

 There is one advantage in having the roof raised some 2 or 3 inches 

 above the super or brood chamber. In summer time it admits of 

 a cool current of air passing over the hive. In winter, the spaoe 

 can be occupied by packing to keep out the cold. In the illustration 

 the roof is made of rusticated weather-boards, which form an even 

 surface on the inner side, and are not so liable to crack and split 

 as full-width boards. The roof may be of skillion form. It answers 



