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end. The floor-board should be fastened to the body 

 with screws. This being complete, I proceed to describe 



the hive-body. This is simply 

 a bottomless and topless box 

 made of inch deal, 14! inches 

 square by 8| inches deep in- 

 side measure. Two pieces of 

 Fig. 20. wood, as F, will form the sides, 



and for the back and front cut two more pieces of the 

 shape and dimensions of D and E, which having planed 



Fig. 21. Fig. 22. 



on one side as the others, with a rabbet-plane or tenon- 

 saw cut out from the unplaned side of one of the long 

 edges of D and E, a rabbet i| inch deep, and half the 

 thickness of the wood, as at E. Procure two strips of 

 zinc, 14^ by i inch, and fasten these with tin tacks over 

 the angle a, as shown by the dotted lines, so that the 

 upper edge of the zinc shall be exactly 5-8ths of an inch 

 lower than the top edge of the wood ; now nail these 

 four pieces of wood together, D and E inside the .F's, 

 and the hive-body will be complete. The crown-board 

 will be composed of the five pieces G (2), H (2) and I, 



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(2 PIECES) 



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(a P/ECES) 



Fig. 23. Fig. 24. 



also of I -inch wood ; these, placed side by side, with the 

 irregular edge of G outwards, in the order of G, H, 

 I, H, G, will cover the top. It will be perceived that I 



