3T2 EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



cover being removed, to show one of the frames. Fig. 2 is a ver 

 tical longitudinal section, and Fig. 3, a vertical cross section of 

 the same. 



(b) Two pieces, front and rear of hive, I4|"x8|"xf . (c) 

 Two pieces, sides of hive, 1 9-|" x 1 0" x -J-", with outside lower 

 edges beveled off when a movable bottom-board is used to 

 avoid crushing bees, or giving lurking-places to moths or worms. 

 When the bottom-board is fixed in the hive, the sides should 

 be 19|"xlO|"x$", and the bottom-board 25"x I4j"x", 

 clamped on the under side. If another hive, of the same form, is 

 put on the first, for surplus honey, as in Fig. 16 (p. 48), holes 

 may be made through this bottom-board, as directed for Hives 

 No. 2. (d) Two pieces, strips on upper part of hive, front and 

 rear, forming rabbets for the frames to rest upon. 15%" x l"x|". 

 (/) Movable cover, 25^" x 18"x-J". This should be tongued 

 and grooved together, and may also be rain-grooved, as shown for 

 the top of the hive in Fig. 23 (p. 96). The grain of the wood 

 should run from front to rear, (g) Two pieces, clamps on 

 under side of cover, 18"x2"x|". The front and rear (b) 

 of the hive should be nailed between the sides (c), flush with 

 their ends, but with the upper edges of (b) -|" below the upper 

 edges of (c) . Some may prefer that the grain of the wood, both 

 of the bottom-board and cover, should run from side to side, 

 instead of from front to rear. 



Movable Comb-Frames. Figs. 1, 4, and 22, pages 20, 24, 88. 



(t) Two pieces, .top, 19f xl^'x^"; bottom, I7f"x$"x''. 

 (u) Ends or vertical pieces.* two pieces, 8f" x |-" X \." (u) One 

 piece, triangular-top comb-guide, 1 6|" X " X -J" X |". This should 

 be nailed to the top of the frame, centrally with regard to its 



* The triangular pieces, represented in many of the engravings, not answering 

 the ends intended, I return to the shape originally used. The Winter passage (-), 

 which was suggested for trial, is also discarded. I now suggest for trial, the 

 placing a second triangular piece about three inches below the first, and dis- 

 pensing with the bottom piece ; or (if no triangular guides are used), putting the 

 bottom piece one third of the distance from the top. Such an arrangement, besides 

 giving an excellent "Winter passage from comb to comb, will enable us to cut out 

 honey from the upper part of the fcuie without disturbing the brood below. 



