94 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
in fecding.” The elongated form is the best for avoid- 
ing the killing of the bees on moving the slides. 
These last are plates of stout zine or copper, which 
draw out one on each side, and one behind the hive; 
they should be about half an inch wider than the cross 
diameter ot the slits, and they slide within a recess cut 
in the crown-board, as shown in the figure opposite. 
They are long enough to meet in the centre, their outer 
ends being a little turned up for convenience. If the 
last inch is perforated with small holes, the slide 
becomes a ventilator by drawing it outa little. Mr. 
Taylor also recommends giving increased facility of 
passage to the bees between the bars and the crown- 
board by grooving out the under side of the latter for 
a depth of three-cighths of an inch and a width 
of an inch anla half, from hole to hole or down 
the centre. This is needful, however, only when 
the bars fit close up to the board; it is now usual 
to depress them sufficiently to obviate such neces- 
sity. 
The principal features of the whole, as thus far 
explained, may be gathered from the opposite 
illustration, which served in former editions to show 
the construction of the author’s “wooden bar boxes.” 
It will be noticed at once that we have here three 
boxes, but the two upper ones should be much shallower 
than the figure shows, as compared with the lower, 
the outside depth of which should equal that of 
the two combined. As represented separately in 
the upper portion of the figure, No. 1 is the 
stock-hive, which is, however, to be furnished with 
frames instead of the bars here shown; above it 
