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A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. 



Ol 



has a circular hole i| inch 

 diameter, cut clean through 

 the wood, for use in feeding. 

 Fig. 2$. When access to a super is 



required to be given to the Bees, it is only necessary to 

 reverse the pieces G, placing the slit inwards ; the five 

 parts of the crown-board will not require joining together, 

 being handier separate, they do not cast so readily, and a 

 portion of the hive can be uncovered at a time, without 

 unnecessarily exposing the whole surface. 



Of vast advantage to perfect Bee-keeping is an upper 

 chamber to the hive, within which supers may be placed 

 and feeding carried on undisturbed by Robber Bees. 

 J, K, L and M, two of each, will form this, and will 



Fig. 27. 



-1i mir 



(a P/ECBs) 



Fig. 26. 



be roofed by u -^ 



must be nailed -s^ 

 and the upper 



l7-i= 



(2 p/ecEs) 



Fig. 28. 



N and O. N 

 on before O, 

 edge, as also 



Fig. 29. 



the outer upper edge of the sides K, must be bevelled off 



at such an angle as will al- 

 low O to lie flat, as in the 

 figure of the complete hive. 

 The fillets, L, M, must be 

 nailed on J, K, as in the 

 dotted lines b, i^ inch on, 

 and the same below, when 



u: 



Fig. 30. 



