FRAME HIVES. 109 
they also exclude the ardour of the sun’s rays during 
summer.” The inner wall is made an inch shallower 
than the outer one, so as to afford a rest for the ears 
of the frames. These are eleven and of the Woodbury 
size (fourteen inches long by eight and a quarter deep 
outside, but exclusive of the ears), and they rest upon 
strips of zine which rise three-eighths of an inch from 
the top of the inner wall, and are shown at 1, 2, in the 
section. The top bar of the frame is three-eighths of 
an inch thick, so that when resting upon the zine it 
allows a space of a quarter-inch between the frames . 
and the crown-board. The depth of the hive (D H) is 
eight and three-quarter inches; the measure from 
front to back (1 to 2) is fourteen and a half, and the 
width, if with the usual eleven frames and a dummy, 
seventeen and a quarter. The annexed figure gives a 
view of the top bars of the frames as in position with 
three extracted. The dummy (/ i) is three-quarters of 
an inch broad, or rather less than the frames; it 
