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boxes. It is offered only as an illustra- 

 tion of one of the problems in beekeep- 

 ing that as yet remains unsolved. 



So it is not definitely established that 

 the double-walled hive provides any bet- 

 ter home for the bees than does the hive 

 built of a single thickness of lumber. 



The walls in any case should be solid 

 and should be joined at the corners with 

 a dove-tail joint to prevent any gaping at 

 these points in case the wood should dry 

 out or warp. 



The end walls at the top are cut out so 

 as to provide a place on which the pro- 

 jecting tops of the frames will rest. The 

 frames are the important part of the hive 

 and are now built of a standard size, meas- 

 uring seventeen and five-eighth inches 

 long by nine and one-eighth inches wide — 

 outside measurements. They are spaced 

 in the hive in such a way that they meas- 

 ure exactly one and three-eighths inches 

 from center to center and this has been 

 recognized as the correct spacing from 



