CHAPTER IV. 



THE "W.B.C." BEEHIVE. 



THE "W.B.C." hive is a bar-fram?, hive designed 

 by Mr. W. Broughton Carr, and its several parts 

 are shown in the illustrations accompanying this 

 chapter. The stand, floor-board, outer case, lift, and 

 roof are shown in their relative positions by Fig. 25, 

 but drawn apart to illustrate their construction 

 better. Fig. 26 shows the interior parts or hive 

 proper the eke, body-box or brood-chamber, and 

 a shallow frame-box or super. 



The following particulars of the sizes of wood 

 used in making this hive were published by Mr. 

 Carr some years since. The floor-board is 1 ft. 8 in. 

 from front to back, the alighting-board projecting 

 7 in. as shown. The width of the entrance is 1 ft. 

 3 1 in. by J in. high, and the full width of the floor- 

 board is 1 ft. 6j in., as shown in Fig. 25. The wood 

 of the floor-board is \ in. thick (the joints being 

 tongued and grooved), and nailed to battens 2j in. 

 deep by \\ in. wide, cut as shown. 



The front and back boards of the outer case are 

 | in. thick by 1 ft. 6j in. by 8| in. The side pieces 

 are \ in. thick by 1 ft. 7J in. by 8| in. The inside 

 measurement of the case when nailed up is 1 ft. 

 5j in. by 1 ft. 7J in. A plinth \\ in. wide is nailed 

 round the lower edge of the case, and drops \ in., 

 as shown in Fig. 27 ; this figure also shows a rebate 

 \ in. by \ in. taken out of the strips used for the 

 plinth, to fit the case over the floor-board. 



The construction of the porch, which is nailed 

 to the front of the case, will be best understood 

 from Fig. 25. The roof of the porch is 4j in. wide, 

 and on the under-side of the lower edge a groove 



