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BEES FOR PLBASUKB AND PKOFIT. 



The Porch. 



A hive must be provided -with a porch [fig. 6 (/?), C] to keep 

 off the drip which falls from the roof upon the entrance when 

 it rains. 



The Dummy or Division-board. 



Every hive should be fitted with a dummy-board, or, better 

 still, two (fig. 12) : they are used to partition off a portion of 



Fig. 12 — Dummy or Division- board, 



the hive when the bees do not occupy the whole of it. They 

 should be made of j-inch or |-inoh wood, 14| inches by 9 inches, 

 with ears | inch broad and 1| inch long at the top. 



The Roof. 



I prefer a roof sufficiently deep to cover a crate of sections — 

 i.e., 5 inches high to the eaves, as in fig. 13. It should be 

 9 inches or 10 inches high to the lidge, a,nd the board along the 

 ridge A should be about 4g inches wide. Such a board is 



Fig. 13.— Hive Roof 



exceedingly convenient, as, when the hives are placed in a row 



it serves as a stand for the smoker, uncapping-knife, or other 



implement required while we are manipulating the adjacent hive. 



A round hole, B, 1 inch in diameter, should be bored at 



