FRAME HIVES. 111 
has itself no pin upon that side, and hence, when dis- 
placed as above, there is nothing to keep the next 
outer frame from touching against it at one end. 
Indeed, when in this position it is necessary that they 
should thus touch, for otherwise the distance-pin on 
the eleventh frame (at /) would prevent the full 
number of frames being retained in the hive. At 
the right-hand corners, d and b, it will be observed 
that the depression over which the frames project is 
extended so as to give finger-room for the easy extrac- 
tion of the dummy; but the inner side-wall of the 
hive, against which this would naturally rest (the 
interior piece between d and b), is on the same level 
with the outer wall, though it hardly appears so in 
the figure. Within the hive there will be a space 
of a quarter-inch from the frame to the wall and 
floor, as directed on page 88. 
The next figure represents the arrangement of the 
roof of the stock-hive, which is both crown and 
adapting board gq—=y\.~—- — B 
in one. In the a = = 518 
. . . i} 
sectional view it ile’ : 
€ 
was shown by 
CD. It consists 
of five strips or 
slats, clamped at 
their ends to pre- 
vent warping, and ¢ We” H 
each seventeen peal ee big | 
and a half inches iby erage ee acene sl 
long. The width “—«% ast 
of the central one is five inches, and that of the others 
‘4 
