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test the accuracy of your ^vork, pile the 

 boards on each other, and see if they are all 

 exactly alike all around. I should, right 

 here, suggest that you have your work nice- 

 ly piled up. all the time, and a couple of 

 v.-illow clothes baskets, set near the saw. 

 will be just the thing to toss all your odds 

 and ends into. One of them should be set 

 directly under the table, to catch all the 

 sawdust. Do -iHA let a scrap or f^pUnter be 

 ihrmcn on the floor. Always put them in the 

 basket. It will pay well in dollars and 

 cents, and then, when a \'isitor comes in, he 

 will say. 



"Why. what beautiful work you are doing, 

 and what a pleasant place this is.*' On the 

 contrary, if you have your lumber aU scat- 

 tered about, and sticks breaking and crash- 

 lug under foot among your tools, he would 

 be very apt to say. 



"Well. I'm glad I do not have to work and 

 diosdge through life ps ihat fellow does." 



Another thing: if your stuff is scattered 

 about, you will very likely miss some. and. 

 after you have changed your gauges that 

 were set so nicely and carefully, you will 

 have to go and set them over, just to finish 

 the few odd pieces: this second time you 

 wHl be likely to do it in a hurry, because you 

 are cross about having been so careless, and ; 

 perhaps this will be the means of making a ; 

 bml job of the whole lot of hives. Keep all \ 

 yoirr pieces piled up square a7id i.-ue. and all ! 

 together, so that none can be missed. ! 



Ton will remember that we had some \ 

 longer pieces, that came from the extreme i 

 ends of the boards. In cutting them up. ' 

 you can save lumber, by making two sides '. 

 cv 'hree ends of these pieces, or even two ! 

 sides and one end. as the stuff may happen ■ 

 to come out. 



While cutting ud stuff. I would have a ' 

 gaxige of the length wanted, right handy. 

 and every little while, just try a board, and 

 see if it is just exactly right. If you have ; 

 a board that you know is just right, stand it 

 on end. beside the pieces yo'a are cutting. ; 

 and then pass your finger along their tops. 

 and yoTi can readily see which is longest, if 

 there is :-ny difference. 



Our stuff is now all in two piles, and. if 

 we wish to come out even, there should be 

 inst as mraiy end boards as side boards: 

 Ihat is. the tv\o piles should be of equal 

 height : as you come pretty near the last, ; 

 yon can manage so as to "fetch up" the 

 pile that is lowest. You will remember that i 

 these boards were cut off. so that the short ' 

 one^ just fill the iron gauge frames cress- 



wise, and the long ones, lengthwise : well. 

 now we are to miti-e or bevel the comers, so 

 that, when four of the boards are set up in 

 this shape — see cut — 

 the iron frame will 

 just drive over them. 

 You yrill observe 

 that the top of the 

 hive shows that the 

 boards are put to- 

 gether just like a pic- 

 ture frame : and to saw this mitre is our 

 next job. Put on the beveling platform, as 

 before, and. with your cut off saw keen and 

 sharp, cut off a comer so as to leave a sharp 

 feather edge on each end of eveiy board. 

 You can tell when your gauge is right, by 

 the way in which the iron hoop drives over 

 the four boards. If the angle is just right, 

 the comers should close up so as to leave 

 scarcely a visible crack where the joint is. 

 All the boards are. of course, to be mitred 

 at the comers in this way, and then we are 

 ready to take off the strips that go around 

 imder the covers. If you will look at the 

 cut of the beveling platform, you will see 

 beside it. a 3 cornered bar with a couple of 

 wires twisted in it. This bar is to be fast- 

 ened, by the wires, to the planed iron track 

 on which the movable side of the saw table 

 slides, the movable side being removed. 

 Xow set the beveUng platform so close to 

 the saw. that you can cut the strip clear ofi, 

 leaving the desired shoulder, as in the cut. 



TAKI^'G OFF THZ 5TEIP I":N'DEK THE COVER, 



In the above cut. let A be the stationary 

 side of the saw table. B the square end of 

 the parallel bar to said table, and H the saw. 

 C is the beveling platform screwed to B. E 

 the side or end of the hive lying on it. F the 

 strip that goes under the cover, and G the 3 

 cornered piece that is wired to the iron 

 track. This last piece is to rest the square 

 edge of the Ixxird against while pushing it 

 through, to cut off this strip. You will ob- 

 serve that the table is screwed up high 

 enough to allow the saw to cut just into the 

 notch I. that we sawed in all the pieces be- 

 fore they were cut up. Oiur side i>ieces are 

 now finished, and the ends are all done, ex- 

 cei>t cutting the rabbets for the frames to 



