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at the top to six or seven inches square. It may 
stand out of the ground fifteen or sixteen inches, 
and be firmly fixed, to avoid shaking, 
which alarms the bees. Sometimes 
a higher elevation than this is given, 
but it is not expedient to subject 
the hives unnecessarily to the action 
of the wind, any more than it is 
to place them so near the ground 
as to cause the bees to be affec- 
ted by damp exhalations. On the 
under side of the centre of the hive- 
board fix four bars of wood, each 
about two inches square in section, and so adjusted as 
to form a cap or socket fitting over the top of 
the pedestal. The board may be there secured by 
the insertion, diagonally, of one or two pins 
throuch the sides of the cap and into the post. 
This plan may be varied by means of two pieces 
or arms, let edgewise flush into the top of a 
post, crossing it diagonally; on this the hive-board 
may rest, or be secured by a button or two. 
Or, on the top of a pedestal, four or five inches 
in diameter, a piece of board, of about nine inches 
square, may be fixed as a table. Upon this place 
the hive-board, of which the parallel bars, appended 
to its underneath side, are so adjusted in point 
of distance apart as to come on each side of the 
table, being there secured by a pin or turn-button. 
This last-described stand may be improved, at 
a little further cost. Nail upon the pedestal a 
piece of strong board, eight or nine inches wide, 
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