102 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
described further on, to employ double walls with an 
air-space between, as an improvement upon the thick 
single walls of Mr. Taylor. Again, a super only five 
inches deep may dispense with any crown-board. 
Stand.—The stand for the whole is simply an 
open frame, of the same outside dimensions as those 
of the cases; with inch-thick rails, four inches deep, 
framed at the corners to four posts or legs. These 
may each be two inches square, and eighteen inches 
high ; either sunk into the ground, or placed upon 
it by means of cross-pieces 
pinned or pegged down. 
The hive-board drops 
loosely down into the 
frame, and rests upon the 
rails, showing a projection 
all round of an inch; the 
: eross-bars on its under- 
side retaining it steadily. 
— The further remarks made 
onpage 78 are also applicable here. 
Recent Frame Hives.—We may now present our 
readers with illustrations and descriptions of two or 
three forms of frame hive as constructed and sold by 
the leading makers. As already noticed, the first 
frame hive brought into general use in this country 
was the invention of the late Mr. Woodbury; and the 
form still enjoying the widest favour is practically the 
Woodbury hive. This arrangement, in its original 
integrity as well as in several variations, is to 
be obtained of various hive-makers, including either of 
those herein named. The one we now represent is 
