104 THE beekeepers' DIRECTORY. 



above the frames than it is to place them at the sides of the 

 brood-chamber. 



6. For many years the brood-chamber of most hives have 

 been made large enough to take ten frames side by side, but 

 eight-frame hives are coming into favor, experience having 

 demonstrated their superiority over larger hives. The ten- 

 frame hive should be fourteen and one-fourth inches wide in- 

 side and the eight-frame hive but twelve inches wide. 



7. Bee-hives should not be made of thick boards. They 

 are too heavy to handle, cost too much and are no better in 

 any way than hives made of boards three-eighths of an inch 

 thick. The thin boards must be kept well painted to be du- 

 rable. 



8. If bees are to be wintered upon the summer-stand they 

 should have double-walls. A space, of two inches at least, 

 should be allowed between the walls of the outer and inner 

 hive. This may be filled with chaff or other warm material 

 in winter. With me bees winter best without any packing 

 except over the frames. , 



Having stated some of the principal points that a good hive 

 should possess, I will new describe several of those in use. 



Dr. Tinker's hive. 



The Nonpareil Bee Hive devised by Dr. G. L. Tinker of 

 New Philadelphia, Ohio, is a hive of recent introduction and 

 may be described as follows : — The bottom is not attached to 

 the brood-chamber and is composed of a framework 2^ inches 

 framework 2^ inches wide rabbeted at the top edges to re- 

 ceive a thin (i inch) board or boards, the entrance being so 

 formed as to open beneath the brood frames. 



The brood-chamber is made to storify, and is 7| inches deep, 

 by 11|- inches wid^ by 17| long inside measure. The sides 

 are f and the ends f of an inch thick. 



The brood-frames are 7X17 inches outside measure and the 

 top-bar is one inch wide, | thick and 18| inches long. These 

 frames are supported on metal rabbets like any Langstroth 

 frame. 



The honey-board is made queen-excluding by the use of 

 strips of perforated zinc f of an inch wide. The wood slats are 

 plump I of an inch wide by J^ thick and in the adjoining 

 edges are made thin saw kerfs into which the zinc strips are 



