FIFTY YEARS AMOXG THE BEES '.i:> 



tougher wood. The top-bar is 18J/^ x 5-lG x 5-l(i. Each 

 end-cleat is 8^ x >4 x 5-lG. 



It will be seen that the dummy is neither so long nor 

 deep as a frame. That makes it easier to handle, and be- 

 ing at the side of the hive it never makes any trouble. 

 If I were making new dummies. I think I world make 



Fig. 29 — Tool-Basket. 



the principal board 15 inches long instead of l(i>^. It 

 would be easier to handle, and bees are little inclined to 

 fill in comb at the ends of the dummy. \Miile the cut-off 

 top-bars in the frames work nicely, they do not work so 

 well in dummies, as I found upon trying a number of 

 them. 



HIVE-COVERS. 



At the risk of losing caste as a bee-keeper, I ani 

 obliged to confess that I never got up "a hive of my own." 

 never even tried to plan one, but I have tried no little 

 to get up a hive-cover to suit me. A hive is so seldom 

 moved that I care less for its weight, but when I, or, more 

 particularlv, my female assistants, have to lift covers all 



