1894 



GLEANIN(iS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oil 



IMl'KOVKMENTS IN HIVK-COVERS, AND DIREC- 

 TIONS FOR NAILING. 



Among the improvements adopted for our 

 Dovetailed hive for the coming season is the 

 changed construction of the covers. This was 

 mentioned in a recent issue. We are now pre- 

 pared to show you detailed illustrations of 

 both the " Higginsville " and "Ventilated Ga- 

 ble" cover. In doing this we make extracts 

 from our new circular packed with each lot of 

 Hve hives, giving directions for nailing. After 

 giving directions in regard to bottom and body 

 of hive, with frames and division-board, the 

 directions proceed as follows: 



If you did not specify the kind of cover in your 

 • order, you should have material for the Higgins- 

 ■ ville cover. 



'Two boards, 7^x21, beveled as at h, and rabbeted 

 'b at each end as at/. Place the two thick edges 



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J> (/Able [i)d 



end, as shown. Nail on the cap-piece c with oiKht 

 1-iiich nails, and the cover is complete as at <(. The 

 rea.son foi- driving only two nails near the center, 

 througfh the cleat, into cover or bottom, is, to allow 

 for shrinking or swelling in tlie grooved cleat from 

 either side, without, splitting the board. 



Tf you ordered tlie ventilated gahle cover you 

 will have material as follows: Two gable ends, D, 

 grooved for under board; two cover boards, K; one 

 thinner gable piece for center, to strengthen the 

 cover. To nail, tlrst drive three I'j-inch or 4d casing 

 nails through each end of cover-lioard into gable 

 end, as shown. Be careful, in driving tlie nail near- 

 est the outer edge, not to get the point into the 

 groove, and thus interfere with sliding the under 

 board into place. By spacing these cover-boards 

 near or far apart under the ridge-board you can 

 make tlie cover project at the sides or not, as you 

 prefer. The side should be projected '2 to 1 inch 

 beyond the end of galV.e end, as at B, so as to pre- 

 vent a driving storm from beating in on the under 

 boards. Nail the ridge-board from above with a 

 •td casing nail in each corner, and on the under side 

 by eight 1-inch nails, four through each cover- 

 board, into the ridge. Nail the center gable piece 

 with two 4d casing nails, through each cover-board. 

 Now slip the two tliin boards, '^xTx'iO's. into the 

 groove in the gable ends, and drive one 1-iiich nail 

 from the bottom of the gable end through the in- 

 side corner of each board at each end, also through 

 the middle inner edge into the middle gable. Tliis 

 method of nailing leaves these boards free to shrink 

 toward the center, without splitting, and keeps the 

 crack between closed. If your hives are No. 1 or '.J, 

 11 or 13, with section-holders for the super, then 

 you will find two tin strips, about ;'a-in. wide, for 

 each super. Nail these to the lower inside edge of 

 the ends of the super, to support the section-hold- 

 ers, thus: 



Use about seven 1-inch or 2d fine njiils in each 

 strip, as shown. 

 You will also have section -holders for the super. 



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Please notice that these section-holders have no 

 top-bar— simply a slotted bottom nailed to two end- 

 blocks, as shown above. Use two 1-inch nails in 

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 groove. Use two „"2-mch or 8d casing nails m each ed, place four in each section-holder; then put 6 of 



