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between it and the frames. This gives chance to pack with 
chaff in winter, and for side and top storing in sections in 
summer. 
The Bingham hive (Fig. 73) is not only remarkably 
simple, but is as remarkable for its shallow depth, the 
frames being only five inches high. These have no 
bottom-bar. The end-bars are one and a half inches wide, 
and the top-bar square. The nails that hold the end-bars 
pass into the end of the top-bar, which is usually placed 
diagonally, so that an edge, not a face, is below; though 
some are made with a face below (Fig. 73, /), to be used 
when comb is transferred. The frames are held together 
by two wires, one at each end. Each wire (Fig. 73, 2) is 
a little longer than twice the width of the hive when the 
maximum number of frames are used. The ends of each 
Frames and Bottom-Board of the Bingham Hive, 
wire are united and placed about nails (Fig. 73, 4,4) in 
the ends of the boards (Fig. 73, ¢, ¢) which form the 
sides of the brood-chamber. A small stick (Fig. 73, 2) 
spreads these wires, and brings the frames close together. 
A box without bottom and with movable cover, is placed 
about the frames. This is large and high enough to permit 
of chaff packing in winter and spring. ‘The bottom-board 
may be made like the one already described. Mr. Bing- 
ham does not bevel the bottom-board, but places lath 
under three sides of the brood-chamber, the lath being 
nailed to the bottom-board. He uses the Langstroth blocks 
to contract the entrance (Fig. 73, 2). 
The advantages of this hive are simplicity, great space 
above for surplus frames or boxes, capability of being 
