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a close-fitting, rain-proof cover or roof. Factory-made hives, as a rule, 
best meet these requirements, as both lock joints and half corners can 
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Fig. 5.—The Langstroth hive—Dadant-Quinby form—cross section showing construction. 
understands, of course, the absolute necessity of great accuracy in bee 
spaces, as well as the great desirability of good material and work- 
manship (figs. 4,5, and 
11). Provision should 
also be made for win- 
ter protection. (See 
pages 23-29.) 
For comb honey, 
hives permitting the 
insertion in the brood 
apartment of any 
number of frames up 
to eight, or frequently 
up to ten, are most in 
use. In securing ex- 
tracted honey, those 
with ten to twelve 
frames in each story 
are preferable, and as 
many stories, one above the other, are employed as the strength of the 
colony and a given harvest may require. A construction, therefore, 
which readily admits of expansion and of contraction, as occasion 
demands, is desirable. 






































































Fic. 6.—Quinby closed-end frames. 
