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with roof-cement Before putting together the boards which 

 form the top of the cap of our hives, we make, along both 

 sides of the joints, a rounded groove, three-eighths of an 

 inch wide and one-fourth of an inch deep, in which the rain- 

 water runs, instead of leaking inside. Mr. McCord of Ox- 

 ford, 0., made the covers of his hives water-tight, by cover- 

 ing them Avith strong muslin, tacked on Avith a strip nailed 



Fig. 84. 



TRI-STATE HIVEj WITH FLAT COVER AND TWO SUPERS. 



to the edges and thoroughly painted. Mr. G. M. Doolittle 

 and Dr. C. C. Miller use tin, painted white, on the tops of 

 their hives. The Swiss and French bee-keepers do the same. 

 A hive is made by some manufacturers which contains about 

 as much brood-chamber space as our large hive, while more 

 cheaply constructed. This is called the Jumbo hive (fig. 85), 

 and is made with lock corners similar to what is termed the 



